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- Complete Part I of Protesting for Civil Rights. For each of the five protest methods listed, summarize an important event from the Civil Rights era where the method was used. Write a definition of the method and identify the outcome of the protest.
- Following the directions in Part II of Protesting for Civil Rights, identify a group of people in need of equal rights or protection today. The identifications should be made with your teacher's approval.
- Create a campaign to achieve equal rights or protection for your chosen group. Outline the goals of your social action, decide on the use of one or more of the protest methods from your research, and explain how and why your campaign will affect change.
- Present the outline of your campaign to the class.
- Review the campaigns of your classmates. Evaluate how well the campaigns matched their stated goals. Be prepared to cite examples from the Civil Rights movement in evaluating how and when protest methods are effective.
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Protesting for Civil Rights
Part 1
Sit‑ In
Identify a key event in which civil rights protesters staged a sit‑ in:
The Greensboro sit-ins were a sequence of nonaggressive protests in Greensboro, North
Carolina, in 1960 that resulted in the Woolworth department store chain eliminating its strategy
of racial segregation in the Southern United States
What is a sit‑ in?
A type of protest that demonstrators take place, declining to leave till their desires are
met.
What happened as a result of the sit‑ in?
As a consequence of the sit-ins, it produced to raise national sentiment at a crucial era in
the history of the US.
Boycott
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Identify a key event in which civil rights protesters staged a boycott:
The Bus Boycott of 1955-56 Montgomery, a protest touching segregated public facilities
in Alabama, which was headed by Martin Luther King Jr. and continued for 381 days (Dudziak,
& Mary).
What is a boycott?
A withdraw from profitable or social associations with (a nation, society, or individual) as a
penance or protest.
What happened as a result of the boycott?
On the year 1955, four days before the boycott started, Rosa Parks, an African-American
woman, declined to yield her HQ to a white man on a Montgomery bus. As a result, she was
arrested and charged. The boycott of community buses by blacks in Montgomery started on the
day of Parks' court trial and lasted 381 days (Dudziak, & Mary).
Demonstration
Identify a key event in which civil rights protesters staged a demonstration:
The key event was the separation of Birmingham, Alabama from it...