Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

This was a March for everyone, young 17 year old John Rankin was a high school student.” I will never forget how scared I was” says Rankin,” everybody was afraid. I thought maybe I was going to lose my life that day on Bloody Sunday going across that bridge (Upfront Lottie Joiner) many more like him some as young as 13 thought they…

“participatory democracy.” This is the theory that everyone should get involved in the democratic process in order to make an educated decision. Furthermore, during this period the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed. The goal of the SNCC was to inspire poor and undereducated African American students to become involved in the Civil Rights movement. In addition, Baker coordinated the Freedom Vote, Freedom Summer, and Freedom School campaigns in Mississippi. The…

Baker, and Phillip Randolph, just to name a few. Their methods of non-violent protest demonstrations and litigation led to desegregation in schools and in public transportation. Despite these successes, African Americans soon realized that these nonviolent boycotts and litigation processes did little to alter their daily lives and racial violence still ensued. Between 1964- 1968, black urban rebellions and race riots were happening in different Metropolitan cities such as Watts and Compton.…

On May 4, 1961, a group of six whites and seven African Americans departed from Washington D.C. to begin their fight for Civil Rights. Their goal was to end segregation in bus terminals and in all transportation stations. These people were called the Freedom Riders. They fought to prove that “separate but equal” was not truly equal. They wanted to end the Jim Crow laws, and this was just one of the many ways they fought. In 1986, the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case enacted the “separate…

Nonviolence would later become one of the most important aspects on behalf of protestors during the Civil Rights Movement. During the span of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, African Americans stopped riding city buses. Instead, volunteers, especially college students who were home from school on their winter break, participated in picking up boycotters and delivering them to their destinations (58-61). In was in part due to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference…

In light of the uniqueness of being a black woman in America Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “Intersectionality” in the late 1980s. Recently, as the keynote speaker at WOW – Women of the World festival 2016, Professor Crenshaw gave a brief summary of Intersectionality; it’s inception and definition. WOW’s, “mission is to champion gender equality, celebrating the achievements of women and girls everywhere and examining the obstacles that keep them from fulfilling their potential.”…

to a unique movement with dangers that scared and motivated them to make their movement as successful as they could. Freedom Summer emerged, primarily, because of Bob Moses. Bob Moses became involved in civil rights early on with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating…

March 7, 1965, has been named in history as Bloody Sunday for the tragic and important event in the Civil Rights Movement. On this Sunday in Selma, Alabama, around 525 African Americans gathered at Browns Chapel in order to march for their right to vote. They planned to march from Browns Chapel in Selma to Montgomery which is an at least a fifty mile march. The marchers were trying to go to Montgomery in order to see Governor Wallace. They wanted to tell him that they wanted the right to…

One of the major contemporary criticisms of Black Power activists in the late 1960s was their lack of a coherent definition of the term Black Power and a reliable program that could replace organized forms of non-violent activism. Joseph has shown that this critique continues to pervade historian’s portrayal of the Black Power movement, as scholars continue to portray the period mainly in negative terms, without discussing the distinct ideological and practical contributions of Black Power…

How accurate is it to say that the growth of the black power movement was the most important factor in the weakening of the civil rights movement? Black power is an umbrella term given to a movement for the support of rights and political power for black people in America during the 1960’s. Unlike Civil Rights, its motives weren’t necessarily complete equality between American citizens, but rather the goal and belief of black supremacy. Black Power is generally associated with figures such as…