PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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Following police officers with guns to protest police brutality
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peaceful sit-in protests at restaurants and lunch counters
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peaceful marches against segregation
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voter registration drives that targeted African Americans
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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: -SNCC sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism. SNCC members played an integral role in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and such voter education projects as the Mississippi Freedom Summer.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Thompson, Rudy Lombard, James Bevel, Marion Barry, Angeline Butler, Stokely Carmichael, and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland joined John Lewis and Hank Thomas, the two young SNCC members of the original Ride.