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Response to Segregation: Freedom Riders
In early May 1961, teams of African American and white volunteers who became known as Freedom Riders boarded several southbound interstate buses. Buses were met by angry white mobs in Anniston, Birmingham, and Montgomery, Alabama. The mobs slit bus tires and threw rocks at the windows. In Anniston, someone threw a firebomb into one bus. Fortunately, no one was killed. -
African Resistance Pt.1: Sit in’s
In 1961 Resteraunts were denying African Americans service so they sit in the restaurants every day until they were.
Soon it spreads like wildfire until over 300 students were taking part bringing many idealize students to take part in the Civil Rights Movement.
Urged on by former NAACP official and SCLC executive director Ella Baker, students established the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1961.
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Segegration Forever Wallace
Events in Alabama grew more and more tragic. At his inauguration as Alabama’s governor, George Wallace had stated, “I draw a line in the dust . . . and I say, Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!” On June 11, 1963, federal marshals had to order Wallace to move from where he stood in front of the University of Alabama’s admissions office to block two African Americans from enrolling. -
Responses to Segregation: Birmingham
Martin Luther King, Jr., decided in the spring of 1963 to launch demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama. He believed it was the only way to get the president to actively support civil rights.One powerful demonstration, the Children’s March. On May 2, heroic young people marched in groups from churches to downtown businesses. Many were attacked by police and arrested. On September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young girls. -
Segregation Forever: Jim Crows Laws
The Segregation in the South tried all there hardest to keep African Americans down and restrict there ability’s.
Jim Crows Laws of 1965 made sure Segregation was its strongest with outlawing black peoples right to vote, enter establishments and go to school. -
African Resistance pt. 2: Riots and Black Power
Riots broke out five days after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.Riots broke out in dozens of other American cities between 1964 &1968. In Detroit more than 1,000 were wounded in 1967. Property loss was estimated at almost $200 million.
Black power stressed pride in the African American cultural group. It emphasized racial distinctiveness rather than adapting to the dominant culture. Dr. King and some other leaders criticized black power as a philosophy of hopelessness and despair.