Most Effective Non-Violent Protest

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The Civil Rights Movement had some of the most effective non-violent protest. There was Sit-Ins, the Bus Boycott, marches, and many others. Though the most famous and most effective non-violent protest are the marches, the Bus Boycott, and Sit-In’s. Rosa Parks even started the big non-violent protest called the Bus Boycott when she was arrested by standing for what she believed in. Altho all the non-violent protest had a effect of the Civil Rights Movement some had more effect than others.

The Sit-In’s were one of the most effective protest besides the Bus Boycott.“ Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent
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In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated Dec. 21, 1956. As newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., is instrumental in leading the boycott.” The Bus Boycott was a big event in the south back then as for they refused to get on buses and some whites lost jobs for this.“The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on December 1, 1955. That was the day when the blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being relegated to the back when a white boarded.” Most whites hated the non segregated buses when the Bus Boycott officially ended on December 20,

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