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Civil Rights Marches

Civil Rights Marches. Pgs. 374-375. Nonviolence. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed that people could bring about change peacefully by working together. Rev. King worked for more than a year with other African Americans organizing the bus boycott in Montgomery.

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Civil Rights Marches

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  1. Civil Rights Marches Pgs. 374-375

  2. Nonviolence • Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed that people could bring about change peacefully by working together. • Rev. King worked for more than a year with other African Americans organizing the bus boycott in Montgomery. • After many months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was illegal.

  3. Nonviolence • Changing things using nonviolence was important to Rev. King. • He believed that nonviolence would change people’s hearts and minds. • Violence would only make matters worse. • Protesters worked to change segregation laws throughout the United States. • Lunch counters • Bus stations • Public buildings

  4. Civil Rights Marches • By 1963, Rev. King was emerging as the leader of the Civil Rights movement. • Many African Americans looked to King for leadership in the fight against segregation. • In April of 1963, King led a march in Birmingham, Alabama. • The marchers wanted an end to segregation in educations, jobs, and housing.

  5. Civil Rights Marches • For eight days people marched in Birmingham. • Police arrested many of the marchers, including King.

  6. Bloody Sunday - 1965 • King attempted to organize a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery, for March 7, 1965. • The first attempt to march on March 7 was aborted because of mob and police violence against the demonstrators. • This day has since become known as Bloody Sunday.

  7. Bloody Sunday - 1965 • Bloody Sunday was a major turning point in the effort to gain public support for the Civil Rights Movement, the clearest demonstration up to that time of the dramatic potential of King's nonviolence strategy. • King, however, was not present.

  8. Bloody Sunday - 1965 • After meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson, he attempted to delay the march until March 8, but the march was carried out against his wishes and without his presence by local civil rights workers. Footage of the police brutality against the protesters was broadcast extensively and aroused national public outrage.

  9. Bloody Sunday - 1965 • King next attempted to organize a march for March 9. • King lead the marchers on the 9th to the Edmund Pettus bridge, then held a short prayer session before turning the marchers around and asking them to disperse.

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