PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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“I heard all of this screaming and . . . somebody yelled, ‘Oh God, they’re killing us!’ . . . And I looked and I saw the troopers charging us . . . swinging their arms and throwing canisters of tear gas. . . . Some of them had clubs and others had ropes and whips. . . . It was like a nightmare. . . . I just knew then that I was going to die.”-Sheyann Webb Sheyann Webb is recalling a campaign to enact voting legislation that resulted in conflict on a bridge in
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Little Rock, AR.
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Selma, AL.
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Washington, D.C.
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -What is this 1964 political cartoon saying about Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty? Its effectiveness in reducing poverty is yet to be determined.
Detailed explanation-2: -Possible examples of non-violent protests are the Freedom Rides, sit-ins, boycotts, and marches.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Which of the following is an example of nonviolent protest? Martin Luther King’s style of protest.
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