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Civil Rights Movement

By Andrew Rodriguez

  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    On December 1, 1955, local black leader Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger. She was arrested and received national publicity, hailed as the "mother of the civil rights movement."

  • Desegregating Little Rock Central High School

    Desegregating Little Rock Central High School
    The nine students had been chosen to attend Central High because of their excellent grades.On the first day of school, only one of the nine students showed up because she did not receive the phone call about the danger of going to school. She was harassed by white protesters outside the school, and the police had to take her away in a patrol car to protect her. Afterward, the nine students had to carpool to school and be escorted by military personnel in jeeps.

  • Robert F. Williams and the debate on nonviolence

    Robert F. Williams and the debate on nonviolence
    Black organizations in the South began practicing armed self-defense. The first to do so openly was the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP led by Robert F. Williams.

  • “Rising tide of discontent" and Kennedy's Response

    “Rising tide of discontent" and Kennedy's Response
    Kennedy administration privately felt that militant demonstrations were ʺbad for the countryʺ and that "Negroes are going to push this thing too far. On May 24, Robert Kennedy had a meeting with prominent black intellectuals to discuss the racial situation. The blacks criticized Kennedy harshly for vacillating on civil rights, and said that the African-American community's thoughts were increasingly turning to violence. The meeting ended with ill will on all sides. Nonetheless,

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    In my oppinion the march was about how American came together to fight aginst racism in Ameria. Then when Mather Luther KIng Jr. Gave his i have a deam speach it really opened the eyes to some more people.

  • Mississippi Freedom Summer

    Mississippi Freedom Summer
    In the summer of 1964, COFO brought nearly 1,000 activists to Mississippi—most of them white college students—to join with local black activists to register voters, teach in "Freedom Schools," and organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP).