The Civil Rights Movement. Montgomery Bus Boycott Boycotting Segregation 1955 NAACP officer Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up seat on bus Montgomery.

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The Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery Bus Boycott Boycotting Segregation 1955 NAACP officer Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up seat on bus Montgomery Improvement Association formed, organizes bus boycott Elect 26-year-old Baptist pastor Martin Luther King, Jr. leader Walking for Justice African Americans file lawsuit, boycott buses, use carpools, walk Get support from black community, outside groups, sympathetic whites 1956, Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation

King and the SCLC From the Grassroots Up King, others found Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) By 1960, African-American students think pace of change too slow Join Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Freedom Rides CORE’s Freedom Rides 1961, CORE tests Court decision banning interstate bus segregation Freedom riders—blacks, whites sit, use station facilities together Riders brutally beaten by Alabama mobs; one bus firebombed New Volunteers Bus companies refuse to continue carrying CORE freedom riders SNCC volunteers replace CORE riders; are violently stopped Robert Kennedy pressures bus company to continue transporting riders

Standing Firm Heading into Birmingham April 1963, SCLC demonstrate to desegregate Birmingham King arrested, writes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” States that without nonviolent forceful direct action true civil rights could never be achieved TV news show police attacking child marchers—fire hoses, dogs, clubs Continued protests, economic boycott, bad press end segregation Kennedy Takes a Stand June, JFK sends troops to force Gov. Wallace to desegregate U of Alabama NAACP’s Medgar Evers murdered; hung juries lead to killer’s release

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