Selma to Montgomery marches

ary 1960, a group of African-American students began what became known as the "sit-in" movement in Greensboro, North Carolina. The students would sit at racially segregated lunch counters in the city's stores. When asked to leave or sit in the colored section, they just remained seated, subjecting themselves to verbal and sometimes physical abuse. The movement quickly gained traction in several other cities. In April 1960, the SCLC held a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina…

On December 1st, 1995, 42-year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland avenue bus to go home after a tiresome day at work. Parks was asked multiple times to give up her seat but she refused. She was later arrested and booked for violating the Montgomery City Code. At her trial a week later, parks was found guilty and was fined $10 and assessed $4 court fee. On this night Rosa Parks was arrested. E.D. Nixon met with Martin Luther king Jr and other local civil rights activists to voice his opinion…

This didn’t stop the rise of black activist such as Malcom X, Bayard Rustin, Rosas Parks, and Dr. Martin King Luther Jr. These activist lead a number of different protests during this era. These peaceful methods included: sit-ins, boycotts, and marches. With these protest came many forms of harassment from people with a different…

“Many frustrated residents and their allies, furious that state officials had dismissed concerns over PCBs leaching into drinking water supplies, met the trucks. And they stopped them, lying down on roads leading into the landfill. Six weeks of marches and nonviolent street protests followed, and more than 500 people were arrested -- the first arrests in U.S. history over the siting of a landfill” (The Environmental Justice). This was the start of it all, but many government officials did not…

many people began to see the carnage that was taking place in the southern states between peaceful protests and violent whites. The televised conflict caught the eye of a nation and many people from different parts of the United States showed up in Selma, Alabama to show support for King and the SCLC’s movement. In August 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act that gauranteed all African Americans the right to vote (History.com Staff, 2009). This was added to the 15th Amendment that already…

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1960’s voting rights activists in the south were subjected to various forms of mistreatment and violence. One event that outraged many American occurred on March 7, 1965, when peaceful participants in a voting rights march form Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery were met by Alabama state troopers who attacked them with nightsticks, tear gas and whips after they refuse to turn back. Some protestors were severely beaten, and other ran for their lives. The incident was captured on…

In his speeches he spoke of Black Nationalism and a black revolution incriminating Martin Luther King Jr. for having a “peaceful revolution” and the infectivity of such. Although in his autobiography he says “The goal has always been the same, with the approaches to it as different as mine and Dr. Martin Luther King's non-violent marching, that dramatizes the brutality and the evil of the white man against defenseless blacks. And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's…

well as mob and police violence; but they stood up for themselves with direct action protests and keen political organizing. In addition, African Americans also did negotiations, petitions, and nonviolent protests. For example, in 1955 blacks in Montgomery, Alabama, they organized a boycott of city buses in protest of the policy segregated seating. Instigated by Rosa Parks, the boycott lasted 381 days, it succeeded in integrating the seating. It also led to the formation in 1957 of the Southern…

the 17 year old, this case no longer required volunteers. Media had a hold of this case, which made it go viral all across America. Over 100 cities across the country were standing up for the rights of young Trayvon. There were protests, rallies, marches, and even candle lightings. People will never forget the death of this young man, especially his family and friends. However, this case and the name of this young man has gone unspoken and it hasn’t been talked about as much as when it first…