Non violent campaigns - USA Flashcards
1
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what was the Montgomery bus boycott
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- when rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus
2
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how did the Montgomery bus boycott help the civil rights movement
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- desegregated busses
- made company’s go broke because people stopped using busses
- got a lot of publicity
- made Martin Luther King a better leader
3
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what were the sit ins
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when a group of blacks ordered food at a white people only restaurant and were told to leave
4
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how the sit ins helped the movement
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- ended segregation in restaurants
- made more people protest because they came back the next day with more people
- publicity
5
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what was little rock high
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when nine students attended little rock high school after schools had been segregated
6
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how little rock high helped
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- helped realise that racism was still happening after schools being desegregated
- got publicity
7
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what did the civil rights act 1964 do
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-made discrimination illegal everywhere
8
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what happened in Birmingham Alabama
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- Martin luther King made a march in Birmingham Alabama because it was the most segregated city
- put children at the front of the march so that the police could be embarrassed when they got arrested on tv
9
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how did the March in Birmingham Alabama help
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-helped because if it was agreed that water fountains, lunch counters and rest rooms would be segregated the March would stop
