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Protests against racial discrimination By Ela Nicholson (Peaceful (Rosa…
Protests against racial discrimination By Ela Nicholson
Peaceful
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man. This was against the local law and she was arrested. The black people in her town started a boycott on the buses, so they didn't use them.
Sit-Ins
In February 1960, 4 black college students went to a whites only cafe at Woolworths in North Carolina. They refused to move until they were served, this was called a sit-in. The sit-in movement spread across southern America with blacks refusing to leave whites only restaurants, swimming pools and hospitals.
Violent
The Black Panther Party
The Black Panthers thought that being peaceful was getting them nowhere. They told blacks to arm themselves and use violence to get equality.
Black Power Activists
Some blacks became very anti-white because they saw whites as the people who were oppressing blacks. They believed that blacks and whites should live separately because they could never coexist equally and peacefully.
Violent Successes and Failures
Failure
Many whites were scared of the Black Power movement and it made them less likely to allow blacks the same freedom and rights as white people. Some argue it stopped black rights progressing.
A Black Panther leader was arrested for the murder of a police officer - a crime that he later admitted and was proud of. The Black Panthers were hunted down and arrested.
Success
Some black people did support the Black Panther party.
The Black Power movement was very popular and helped start a huge movement in black music, art and culture. Many black people were inspired by these activists and entered politics.
Peaceful Successes and Failures
Failure
Many were beaten by whites when they refused to move and some blacks were even killed but, because they followed Martin Luther King's idea of being peaceful, they refused to fight back.
Rosa Parks was arrested.
Success
All public places were desegregated by 1965, this meant blacks and whites could no longer legally be separated.
In December 1956 the court agreed to change the law so that black people could sit anywhere on buses (desegregation).