PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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march
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riot
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sit-in
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boycott
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the early 1960s, young Black college students conducted sit-ins around America to protest the segregation of restaurants.
Detailed explanation-2: -Contents. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in 1960 in the wake of student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South and became the major channel of student participation in the civil rights movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960 by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics. Although Martin Luther King, Jr.
Detailed explanation-4: -We affirm the philosophical or religious ideal of nonviolence as the foundation of our purpose, the presupposition [assumption] of our faith, and the manner of our action.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.