Unit+VIII+-+P6

=The Civil Rights Movement=

1950s and 1960s America
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 * =KKK - white supremacist organization - used violence and terrorism against blacks=
 * =Freedom Riders - black __and__ white people helping push against segregated buses, often met with violence=
 * =Rosa Parks - civil disobedience (disobeyed a law to make a point, didn't hurt anyone) - refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, accepted the consequences (arrest)=
 * =Sit-In - black students wanted to point out the injustice of segregated lunch counters so they sat down and demanded service=
 * =The March on Washington - led by MLK Jr - protest march against segregation and for voting rights and jobs and equal rights - August 28, 1963 (MLK Jr "I Have a Dream" speech) - about 200,000 people marched=
 * ="Whites Only" - segregation throughout the south - Jim Crow Laws - segregated bathrooms, fountains, movie theaters, etc...SCHOOLS=
 * =Governor George Wallace - governor of Alabama - 1963 - refused to allow integration of U of Alabama until President Kennedy sent troops to demand it - Wallace's motto was "Segregation Now...Segregation Tomorrow...Segregation Forever"=