Challenging segregation & civial rights

By mablanke

  • Nonviolent protest

    a peaceful way of protesting Ghandhi helped india gain its independednce in 1947. Core created th SIT-IN 1943 as a tactic

  • M.L.K.J

    Martin Luther encouraged a philosophy of non violence among civial right. Other African Americans founded the SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

  • surpreme court

    Boynton V. Virginia expanded the earlier ban on bus segragation. In 1961 CORE and SNCC organized the FREEDOM RIDES to test southern compliance

  • Ole miss

    james Meredith applied fir admission to all-white universityof Mississippi, Known as " Ole Miss"

  • MLKJ

    joined the reverend field shuttlesworth. While in Birmingham jail, King wrote a famous letter deffending his tactics and his timing. To focus on Kennedys's Bill, civil rights leaders propose a march in D.C August 1963 more than 200,00 came to the march