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Warm-up: “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Explain what Martin Luther King, Jr. meant by this quote?

The Movement

Montgomery, Alabama December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks got on a bus to ride home When the driver asked 4 blacks to move to the back to make seats for a group of whites that got on, Parks refused and was arrested NAACP and churches asked blacks to boycott the busses in Montgomery Dr. Martin Luther King Jr told them “we’re tired of being segregated and humiliated” King and other leaders faced death threats, bombings, and jailings Boycott lasted 13 months and cost bus company $$$$$$

Results of Bus Boycott Ended segregation on Montgomery busses Supreme Court eventually declared bus segregation illegal Now blacks could sit anywhere they wanted on busses Led to the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Coordinated nonviolent civil rights protests all over the South Boycott made Martin Luther King, Jr. national figure in civil rights movement The boycott introduced a new generation of African American leaders

Little Rock, Arkansas Massive resistance threatened school segregation After Brown case, Little Rock school board planned to integrate 9 black students sent to Central High School in September 1957…The Little Rock Nine Segregationists tried to stop them Governor Orval Faubus called in National Guard to prevent the students from entering school After3 weeks, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division to protect the students as they went to school

New Orleans, Louisiana November 1960, Ruby Bridges, a 6 year old African American, was ordered by a federal judge to be one of the first elementary students to be integrated into the public school system in New Orleans She met with yelling, heckling and discrimination but kept going White parents pulled their kids out of the school Ruby finished first grade with only herself and the teacher in the classroom When she began second grade a year later, her experience was much different, with many other African Americans enrolled in the school as well