Greensboro sit-ins

authorities to apply force among peaceful protestors. Over time more Americans became involved in the protests as they saw it was a just cause. Some of the acts of civil disobedience included the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, the sit-ins at all white lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee, peaceful marches such as the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 and Birmingham children’s crusade. The civil rights movement…

He pointed out that each group was task­ oriented and served a direct purpose. This claim works in conjunction with his other claim that real revolution requires strong, rather than weak ties. He shows this by illustrating how the early sit-ins at the Greensboro, counter were made up of people within strong community ties to one another. Gladwell points out that friends pushed other friends to join and participate in the Civil Rights movement. He illustrated the strong ties that occurred during…

access to information. However, the strong-tie connections help them to make social changes and face dangers as he states, “the students who joined the sit-ins across the South during the winter of 1960 described the movements as a ‘fever’. But the civil-rights movements was more like a military campaign than like a contagion.”(235) The Greensboro sit-ins had a powerful impact on society without the use of social media. The weak ties related to social media cannot lead to high risk activism and…

The book, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd opens with a fourteen year old white girl, Lily Owens. She lives in Sylvan, South Carolina with her abusive father T. Ray and her housemaid, Rosaleen. Lily was only four years old when her mother died. She heard that it was because of her as well, and this is the only memory she has of her. The only physical items from her mother she had were a pair of gloves and a picture of a black Mary. Rosaleen decides to register to vote once the Civil…

Groups of black college student, using nonviolent methods advocated by Martin Luther King Jr., staged sit-ins, walking into white-only eateries, sitting at the counters, and ordering coffee. The first sit-in was February 1, 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the sit-in movement spread from there (“The Sit-In Movement”). Throughout the country, black students would enter white-only restaurants and refuse to leave until served. The demonstrations were…

Martin Luther King Jr. played a tremendous role in the civil rights movements. Dr. King orchestrated many peaceful acts to gain equality for African Americans. He led the bus boycott in 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus. King was also known for his powerful acts in having taught nonviolent methods. In 1964, he earned the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King Jr. was also very widely known for his famous “I Have a Dream” speech…

Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race and distinguishing them as inferior or superior. Looking back at the history of America, one would notice racism along with discrimination and unfair treatment between African-Americans and whites. This imbalance caused a major movement that would eventually give way to the integrated nation we live in today. Through violent and nonviolent protest, determined leaders, and Supreme Court…

9. Compare and contrast the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC’s) 1960 sit-ins with the Congress of Racial Equality’s 1961 Freedom Rides. Which action do you think was most effective and why? a. Although blacks had been struggling for equal rights since the end of Reconstruction, their fight for civil rights picked up speed in the 1950s and 1960s. Both groups, the SCLC, and SNCC were all committed to nonviolence and peaceful means of protesting racial inequality, they used…

Socrates, one of the most prestigious philosophers in history, argues in Crito, “Nor must one, when wronged, inflict wrong in return, as the majority believe, since one must never do wrong” (Plato, 52). That is, he believes that a person should never do harm or wrong to others. Even if that person was harmed or wronged first, he or she should never do wrong in revenge. Therefore, under this premise, Socrates concludes that he should not escape the prison because this action will wrong the law,…

. Raised while passive resistance was in full force, these young adults were determined to create change, and nationwide sit-ins, where black youth would go to previously segregated areas and mandate equal service, sparked this change (Chafe 460). They wanted to force white people to confront their racism rather than evade it. Taking an ethical focus, they believed in humanity…