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Effects of nonviolence resistance during the Civil Rights Movement.

Effects of nonviolence resistance during the Civil Rights Movement. By: Tony Paterniti. How it came about. Martin Luther King started the use of nonviolence resistance when he moved to Montgomery where he became a leader off a bus boycott.

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Effects of nonviolence resistance during the Civil Rights Movement.

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  1. Effects of nonviolence resistance during the Civil Rights Movement. By: Tony Paterniti

  2. How it came about • Martin Luther King started the use of nonviolence resistance when he moved to Montgomery where he became a leader off a bus boycott. • Martin Luther King learned of non violence through reading about Mohandas K. Gandhi, Henry D. Thoreau, and Christ.

  3. Thesis statement • The idea of nonviolent resistance African Americans used during the Civil Rights Movement like bus boycotts, sit-ins, and marches. • Boycotts • Sit-ins • Marches

  4. Boycotts • Boycott – to not use something, buy something, deal something, ect. as a group • Because African Americans were not treated fairly on public transportation they protested by not riding.

  5. Montgomery Bus Boycott • The Montgomery Bus boycott started on Dec. 5, 1955 and lasted and lasted almost a year with more then 90% of Montgomery's African Americans joining it. • Set of by Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her seat for a white person and other incidents where African Americans were not treated fairly on buses.

  6. MIA • The night of the first day of the boycott there was a meeting among the people that set up the boycott. • In the meeting the Montgomery Improvement Association(MIA) was formed to make future decisions of the boycott and other inequality issues in Montgomery. • Here is where Martin L. King came to power of Civil Rights Movement where he was elected president of the MIA.

  7. Boycotts were a success • On Nov. 13, 1956 the Supreme Court says Alabama's segregation laws are unconditional and had to go. • Montgomery found out a day later of the Supreme Court decision in a MIA meeting deciding what to do about the possible stopping of car pools.

  8. Freedom Rides • Designed to test the supreme court decision of fully integrated transportation. • The first freedom ride started on the 4th of May in 1961 intended to go from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans. • Beaten, Burned, and bombed by angry white mobs twice on the trip. • Freedom riders still did not stop because of the angry white mobs. • Another group of freedom riders were attacked in Montgomery where Attonery

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