Civil Rights in the U.S.

Events of the Civil Rights Movement

•Little Rock 9 (1957)• Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-

56)•Non-Violence•Sit-Ins – Woolworth’s (1960)•Freedom Rides (May 1961)

Little Rock 9 1954

Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott (1955-56)

Non-Violence

•Primary tactics used by Civil Rights activists

•Based on Mohandis Gandhi – India – died 1948

•African Americans traveled to study Gandhi’s ideas

•Workshops in the U.S.

Sit-Ins - Woolworth’s 1960

Freedom Rides - 1961

Protesting the bus stops created to serve interstate travelers

Martin Luther King Jr.