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How to Protest
Individual Communitywide
Civil Disobedience: A group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral. A tactic used in protest movements by marginalized people, including Af Am in the Civil Rights Movement.
Sit-In: A form of nonviolent civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move. Civil Rights activists used this tactic to great success. Popularized their oppression to world.
•Before Brown , the Civil Rights movement
(mostly the NAACP) was focused on legal
action, trying to get laws changed through
courts.
•As the 1960s began, the Civil Rights
movement got a different focus. It was
made up of mass action by communities
against discrimination.
Mass Action vs Legislative Action
Nonviolent Actions Used by the CR
Movement
Civil Disobedience
A group's refusal to obey a law because they
believe the law is immoral (as in protest against
discrimination); African Americans used this kind
of direct action to force a change to the laws.
Sit-In
A form of civil disobedience that involves one or
more persons nonviolently occupying an area to
promote political or social change; a primary
action used in the Civil Rights movement.
Greensboro, South CarolinaGreensboro, South Carolina
Protest Marches in MS, 1960
What does nonviolent resistance
mean?
Nonviolent Resistance
The practice of achieving political goals
through symbolic protests, civil
disobedience, and other methods, and
without using violence. Primary strategy in
the Civil Rights movement.
Protests continue outside a segregated cafeteria, Greensboro, SC, 1960.
Woolworth Sit-In, Jackson, MS, 1963
Emmett Till• In 1955, a 14 year old boy said “Bye,
baby” to a white woman in Mississippi. In
response, he was brutally murdered.
• This event shocked the world, and
showed them the true nature of Southern
racism.
• 50000 people viewed his body in an open
casket, and magazines like Jet published
photos.
Trial’s Conclusion
• The all-male, all-white jury acquitted
both defendants in only 67 minutes.
• One juror said, "If we hadn't stopped to
drink pop, it wouldn't have taken us too
long."
• This outraged people throughout the
world and energized emerging CR
Movement.