PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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The businesses were owned by members of the KKK.
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The businesses wrote nasty letters to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The lunch counters were overcrowded and people were forced to stand and eat.
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The owners of the lunch counters refused to serve blacks.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The young women seek information from the Oklahoma City NAACP, which had previously used nonviolent direct-action to desegregate local restaurants. They decide to target the Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Greensboro because it is part of a national chain that Blacks all over the country patronize.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Soon dining facilities across the South were being integrated, and by July 1960 the lunch counter at the Greensboro Woolworth’s was serving Black patrons. The Greensboro sit-in provided a template for nonviolent resistance and marked an early success for the civil rights movement.