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Boycott: A nonviolent protest in which people refuse to buy products or use services Sit-in: A nonviolent protest in which people it down and refuse to get up Civil Disobedience: A nonviolent refusal to obey laws or govt. demands in order to cause change

Dec. 1 st 1955: Montgomery, AL Bus driver orders Parks to give up her bus seat to a white passenger: Parks refused: Arrested News spread through the AA community

Martin Luther King Jr.: Young minister Presented list of demands to bus company: AA must be treated politely by bus driver AA should not have to give up seat Bus company must hire AA drivers

AA would not ride bus until demands were met: Boycott Soon most buses were empty: AAs walked or got rides

Boycott lasted over a year White businesses lost shoppers Bus company lost riders US Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on buses: Alabama

King was being noticed People believed that nonviolent protests could end segregation: Restaurants Movie theatres Libraries Drug stores Hundreds of sit-ins were happening in the south

4 AA college students: Greensboro, NC Went to lunch counter and sat down: Whites only Were refused service but stayed Next day 20 more: Refused to leave Came everyday for 6 months: desegregated

Some were thrown from their seats: Never fought back Knocked down: got back up and took their seat If arrested: Others took their place By 1961: most segregated places disappeared in the south

AA and white protesters: Rode buses through southern states End segregation on interstate buses/bus stations Broke segregation rules at stops: Civil Disobedience

1963-King in AL: Protesting Jim Crow Laws: Most segregated city Kings and others organized sit-ins and protests across Birm. Arrested: Week in jail

25,000 protesters marched in Birm. Police and firefighters put the hoses and dogs to the protesters: Women and children Birmingham businesses desegregated: Hired more AA

1963-Civil rights leaders planned march on DC: Urge civil rights bill that was in Congress Aug. 28, 1963: 200,000 Americans in DC King-I have a dream speech

1964-President: Johnson and Congress passed Civil Rights Act 1. Right for all to vote 2. Segregation in public places illegal 3. Discrimination in hiring illegla

Summer `64: Freedom Summer Volunteers went to south to register AAs to vote: Southern lawmakers and hate groups tried to stop this

Andrew Goldman (W) Michael Schwerner (W) James Chaney (AA): Arrested for speeding: Jailed in Miss. Never saw alive again Month later-bodies found Chaney-beaten: All shot to death

Ku Klux Klan: Attacked civil rights volunteers By the end of summer: 35 AA churches burned 30 houses destroyed 170,000+ AA registered

1965-Passed by Congress: States could not prevent AA from registering: Federal govt. would take over if states did End of year-2.5 million AA registered

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