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Romashka [77]
3 years ago
15

The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) was a social movement in the United States during which activists attempted to end racial

segregation and discrimination against African Americans. This movement employed several different types of protests. As you read, identify the tactics that civil rights activists used to oppose racial segregation.
By 1960, the Civil Rights Movement had gained strong momentum. The nonviolent measures employed by Martin Luther King Jr.1 helped African American activists win supporters across the country and throughout the world.

On February 1, 1960, the peaceful activists introduced a new tactic into their set of strategies. Four African American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. When service was refused, the students sat patiently. Despite threats and intimidation, the students sat quietly and waited to be served.

The civil rights sit-in was born.

No one participated in a sit-in of this sort without seriousness of purpose. The instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served. Often the participants would be jeered and threatened by local customers. Sometimes they would be pelted with food or ketchup. Protestors did not respond when provoked by angry onlookers. In the event of a physical attack, the student would curl up into a ball on the floor and take the punishment. Any violent reprisal would undermine the spirit of the sit-in. When the local police came to arrest the demonstrators, another line of students would take the vacated seats.

Sit-in organizers believed that if the violence were only on the part of the white community, the world would see the righteousness of their cause. Before the end of the school year, over 1500 black demonstrators were arrested. But their sacrifice brought results. Slowly, but surely, restaurants throughout the South began to abandon their policies of segregation.

The Sit-In Movement by USHistory.org is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
In April 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. sponsored a conference to discuss strategy. Students from the North and the South came together and formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Early leaders included Stokely Carmichael3 and Fannie Lou Hamer.4 The Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) was a northern group of students led by James Farmer,5 which also endorsed direct action. These groups became the grassroots6 organizers of future sit-ins at lunch counters, wade-ins at segregated swimming pools, and pray-ins at white-only churches.
Bolstered7 by the success of direct action, CORE activists planned the first freedom ride in 1961. To challenge laws mandating segregated interstate transportation, busloads of integrated black and white students rode through the South. The first freedom riders left Washington, D.C., in May 1961 en route to New Orleans. Several participants were arrested in bus stations. When the buses reached Anniston, Alabama, an angry mob slashed the tires on one bus and set it aflame. The riders on the other bus were violently attacked, and the freedom riders had to complete their journey by plane.
New Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered federal marshals to protect future freedom rides. Bowing to political and public pressure, the Interstate Commerce Commission8 soon banned segregation on interstate travel. Progress was slow indeed, but the wall between the races was gradually being eroded.
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1 answer:
Natalka [10]3 years ago
3 0

The tactics that civil rights activists used to oppose racial segregation were sit- ins, boycotts and protest marches.

Explanation:

The Civil Rights Movement was a social movement undertaken by the colored people, to end the racial discrimination against them.

People of many different races and religions were also part of the movement.

But predominantly, most of their activists were African- Americans. Activists no matter what their race or religion was, joined in the protest.

The participants led a very non- violent form of protest. Despite the fact that they were attacked by angry mobs, they refused to bow down to the violence and carried on with their protest quietly.

Finally, the outcome was in the favor of the  African Americans, and the white people slowly changed their attitude towards the colored race and gave them the rights, they deserved.

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