PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
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Sibley Commission
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Freedom Riders
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Bourbon Triumvirate
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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: -Students from across the country came together to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and organize sit-ins at counters throughout the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was organized by young men and women committed to ending racial discrimination and segregation. A massive boycott of stores with discriminating policies lead to a decisive victory–the integration of lunch counters.
Detailed explanation-4: -The sit-in was organized by Ezell Blair, Jr. (later Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond-all African Americans and all students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro.
Detailed explanation-5: -Though most stores did not immediately desegregate their lunch counters, the sit-ins were successful both in forcing partial integration and in increasing national awareness of the indignities suffered by African-Americans in the southern United States.