PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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the Americans with Disabilities Act
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programs dealing with affirmative action
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nonviolent attempts to oppose segregation
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violent acts by the Black Panthers
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Detailed explanation-1: -The answer would be C. Lunch counter, sit-ins, and the actions of freedom riders are clearly examples of ninviolent attempts to oppose segragation. The lunch counter, sit-ins and the freedom riders are aiming to test the desegregation laws in different public places.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Freedom Rides, like the sit-ins before them, demonstrated that anyone who opposed segregation could take action themselves to work towards ending Jim Crow Laws. They helped the spread of civil rights in the south.
Detailed explanation-4: -sit-in movement, nonviolent movement of the U.S. civil rights era that began in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960. The sit-in, an act of civil disobedience, was a tactic that aroused sympathy for the demonstrators among moderates and uninvolved individuals.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lunch counter sit-ins were a nonviolent form of protest used to oppose segregation during the civil rights movement, and often provoked heckling and violence from those opposed to their message.