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Arrest of Rosa Parks
Place: Montgomery, Alabama
The method was a nonviolent defiance.
Leader: Rosa Parks
The result of her doing this was a rallying point for organizing the black community. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Place: Montgomery, Alabama
It was a non-violent protest that they did.
Some leaders were A. Philip Randolph, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martain Luther King Jr.
The result was they prepared African Americans for the struggle for equal rights. -
The Greensboro Sit-In
Greensboro, North Carolina was where it happened.
The Greensboro Four were the leaders.
They had a peaceful protest, though the whites would yell at them.
The result, F.W. Woolsworth (the place they were sitting it at) gave up and blacks could eat there and all across the country in his resturants. -
Freedom Riders
Place where this happened was Washington D.C.
The blacks sat on 2 buses until whites stoned and beat them.
The Freedom Riders and James Farmer were leaders.
The result of this was de-segregation. -
Birmingham, Alabama
In Birmingham, Alabama.
Medger Evers was a leader.
He and some others did a de-segregation protest.
The result was having the right to be served in public places. -
Selma, Montgomery, Bloody Sunday
Place: Selma, Montgomery
The method that was used in this was a protest. The police were violent with the protesters.
Some leaders of Bloody Sunday were John Lewis, Hosea Williams, and Jim Clark.
The results of this was segragation becoming illegal. -
Wilmington Riots
This happened in Wilmington, North Carolina.
These were violent protestests.
There were 9 men and 1 woman. These people were known as the Wilmington Ten.
The result, people were killed.
