And it grew and grew each day in numbers. On the first day there were only about 500 students protesting and although there were some reports of vandalism there it never got too crazy. Until that night when protesters began throwing beer bottles at police and getting a bit rowdy. That night the Kent mayor declared a state of emergency and got troops sent in from all around Ohio in hopes to contain the situation. The next night it got a little bigger and a little bit more boisterous, the same protesting demonstrations were going on for the most part and there were a few more arrests then the previous night.
A black who tried to register in Mississippi was shot at by a white. One registrar drew a gun and ordered a black activist to leave. Several activists were beaten. Sitkoff says, ‘only a significant federal presence in the Deep South might have saved the voter registration program.’ (124) Blacks saw President Kennedy as a ‘temporizer and manipulator’ who would act only ‘when it suited his
Segregation in Restaurants On February 1, 1960 Franklin McCain was of the teenage student involved in a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina at Woolworths him and group of other students were influenced by a book they read about the Montgomery Bus Boycott with the leader being Martin Luther King. Franklin and the other four students decided to take action and started a sit-in at the local Woolworth who rules were to not serve black people. Days went by and other black students decided to join them until all the seats were full of them. They were physically assaulted during the sit-ins but they did not fight back because the book they read described that the leader Martin Luther King was a non-violence civil rights movement activist that
King’s dedication to the cause is irrefutable as he was arrested at least thirty times, one precise occasion for this occurring during a protest to eliminate segregation in restaurants and eating facilities in Birmingham, Alabama, April 16th. During this period of time in prison, King wrote his famous ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ letter, defending his belief in non-violent protest. King addresses his letter to ‘My Dear Fellow Clergymen’, members of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, an affiliate organisation of the SCLC, of which he was president. The influence of King’s letter can been seen as hugely significant, as it confronted the need for immediate action, honing in on and attacking the belief that King had “yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was ‘well timed’ in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation”. This phrase, and indeed, his whole letter, instigated the continuation of King’s and his supporter’s direct action campaigns.
This would become more apparent after James Meredith, who started a March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson in 1966, to protest against racism, and subsequently was shot down . Carmichael along with others picked up where Meredith left off; by the time the marchers arrived in Greenwood, Mississippi; they were arrested by the police. After Carmichaels release from jail, he would make his famous “Black Power” speech in which he called for "black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, and to build a sense of community.” Even though this slogan had been used before by Richard Wright and others, this was a first for the Civil Rights Movement. From here, Carmichael’s outlook would change and he would start looking at it from a self-defense aspect and trying to rally young blacks to his cry for revolution. He started to unite these young men and women under the motto of “Black Power,” in order to develop real power within their community and prove to not only them, but also the rest of the nation that Blacks would no longer step aside and allow the Whites to continue to manipulate and dominate a system that would hinder not only them, but the Civil Rights Movement as well.
Watching the documentary I learned a lot of new information and relearned the information I forgotten. Some information I learned or relearned from the documentary included: Emmett Till was from Chicago and is visiting down in Mississippi where there is segregation, the jury serving in the case was all white and from the same area the murderers were from, the jury found the defendants not guilty because the state couldn’t confirm the identity of the body as being Emmett Till, the Rosa Parks incident happened about 100 days after the murder, and Emmett’s murder help fuel the African-American Civil Rights Movement. I learned
THE PROFILE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809-April 15, 1856) served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. he successfully led the county through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis the American Civil war by preserving the union by force while ending slavery and promoting economic modernization . He was mostly self educated. He became a county Lawyer an Illinois state legislator and a one term member senate. He was an affectionate, though often absent husband, and father of four children. Abraham Lincoln was an out spoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the united states, which he identify articulated in his company debates and
Yet the riders still kept moving. “We silently formed a circle, and joining hands, we sang “WE’LL NEVER TURN BACK” very slow and very solemnly” (McAdam, 72) To have the strength and willpower to just keep moving forward when everything is against you is something that nobody can take away from you. Freedom Summer was extremely important to the Civil Rights Movement because not only were unregistered black voters encouraged to register, but the persecution of black voters in the south was brought to the attention of the media. This in turn brought attention all over the United State and the world. The movement helped destroy the Jim Crow Laws and gained momentum for a further movement.
Thus, the Civil Rights movement was able to create significant social and political change in America. The Civil Rights movement resulted significant change in social in several ways. First, with the Jim Crow law, which promoted racial separation that caused restrictions, discrimination in employment, housing, and schooling remained a significant obstacle for African Americans living in urban ghettos in the North and the West. This segregation led to the rebellious actions such as sit ins a tactic often used by the Congress of Racial Equality. Sit ins is when black males, often college students that sat down at the whites-only lunch counter.
Civil activists started taking Freedom Rides. This meant black and white people traveled around the South in buses to see if this new law worked. In some places people tried to attack the Freedom Riders, because they didn’t want the law to change. President John F. Kennedy supported the Freedom Riders. The Interstate Commerce Commission helped the civil rights by saying that everyone can sit wherever they want on a bus even if they look different or believe in something else then most people.