Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King and the Non-Violent Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery Bus Boycott On 1 st December 1955 Rosa Parks , a 42 year old black woman and NAACP member refused to give up her seat to a white man as was the law in Alabama. She was arrested and fined $10 However, her friends organised a bus boycott until the bus company agreed to seat all passengers on a ‘first come, first serve’ basis. Black customers made up 75% of the Company’s business, so the boycott was very damaging. Black passengers walked, shared lifts or took taxis to work

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Non-Violent protests ,[object Object],The first sit-ins was at a Woolworth’s counter in Greensboro on 1st February 1960 . It had little effect. The students were not served. The next day they came back and various news agencies got hold of the story and it gained massive publicity.

Non-Violent protests ,[object Object],Do show yourself friendly on the counter at all times. Do sit straight and always face the counter. Don't strike back, or curse back if attacked. Don't laugh out. Don't hold conversations. Don't block entrances Wear your best Sunday clothing

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What were the effects of the sit-ins? ,[object Object],Groups of students were planning to travel on segregated buses across key Southern states. They faced: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],After 5 months of abuse inter-state travel segregation became illegal on November 1 st 1961.

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Letter from Birmingham Jail ,[object Object],[object Object],“ While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities " unwise and untimely" . . . . Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was "well timed," according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation”

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1964 ,[object Object],[object Object],[ p]robably one of the most vicious situations that was in the whole Civil Rights Movement . . . . They beat people at random. They didn't have to be marching. All you had to do was be black. And they hospitalised probably fifteen or twenty folks. And they just was intending to kill somebody as an example, and they did kill Jimmie Jackson.

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