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Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement. By: Kihwan Yoo. Civil Disobedience in Civil Rights. Civil Disobedience is about using your conscious as a guide used to make choices and doing things based on the choices you made. However, this many go against a law or something that the government supports.

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Civil Rights Movement

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  1. Civil Rights Movement By: KihwanYoo

  2. Civil Disobedience in Civil Rights • Civil Disobedience is about using your conscious as a guide used to make choices and doing things based on the choices you made. However, this many go against a law or something that the government supports. • This was the case in the Civil Rights Movement. African Americans did not enjoy all of the rights that white people had. Because this was unfair and unconstitutional, they led a movement in an effort to fight for their rights. • This is a perfect example of Civil Disobedience in the Civil Rights Movement: doing something that you believe in or think is unfair. • Another example of Civil Disobedience in the Civil Rights Movement is passive resistance.

  3. Sit INS • Sit INS received a lot of attention with a student sit-in at a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina. 4 students, Ezell A. Blair Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain, all from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College (an all black school) went to a segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth’s policy of excluding African Americans. • They decided to wait until they were served. • This started many other sit INS in Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia.

  4. Freedom Rides • Freedom Rides were used to test the Supreme Court’s decision on segregated seating of interstate passengers being unconstitutional. • Interracial groups rode the buses into the South. • However, while doing this, they faced heavy resistance in the upper South. It seemed as though even the upper part of the South was not ready for integrated. • Why did they do this? • They knew they were going to face heavy resistance from the start. The main reason of doing this was to purposely meet resistance so that the government would enforce the law.

  5. Marches Another great example of passive resistance was the march from Selma to Montgomery. Marches were illegal during these times, but because they believed in this cause, they did it anyways. 600 civil rights marchers left Selma and marched 6 blocks before they were met by state and local lawmen. They used Billy clubs and tear gas to drive them back to Selma. However, 12 days later, Martin Luther King Jr. led a full scale march of about 3,200 people towards Montgomery. They walked approximately 12 miles per day and slept in fields. By the time they reached the capitol 4 days later, they had gained about 21,000 people for a total of 25,000 marchers.

  6. Works cited page • "The Mahablog » Protesting 101." The Mahablog. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. <http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/12/protesting-101/>. • "Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: Freedom Rides." Www.watson.org. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. <http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/freeride.html>. • "We Shall Overcome -- Selma-to-Montgomery March." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. <http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm>. • "African American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)." Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, 29 Nov. 2011. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)>.

  7. Civil Disobedience Employed in the Abolitionist Movement By: Spencer Kim

  8. Introduction • The question was: How was civil disobedience employed in the Abolitionist Movement? Find and explain in detail three examples. • The following three people played a big role in following their conscience not the government • Henry David Thoreau • Harriet Tubman • Nat Turner

  9. Henry David Thoreau • Henry David Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax • He was put in jail for one night • The reason he refused to pay was because he didn’t want to pay a government that supported slavery

  10. Harriet Tubman • Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape from their owners • She was going against the government to do the right thing • This slavery escape was known as the “Underground Railroad”

  11. Nat Turner • Nat Turner led many slave revolts for their freedom from their owners • He didn’t think slavery was the right thing • His confessions about leading the revolts was known as “Turner’s Confessions”

  12. My Personal Feelings • To me this makes me think about what these poeple have done to do the right thing • I appreciate these people’s efforts to end slavery for good

  13. Citations • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau • http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/_Confessions_of_Nat_Turner The_1831 • http://www.nndb.com/people/937/000110607/ • http://www.google.com/imgres?q=henry+david+thoreau&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1279&bih=652&tbm=isch&tbnid=iisjnYciaxhEjM:&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau&docid=ms-wuOrxxrwHOM&imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Henry_David_Thoreau.jpg/230px-Henry_David_Thoreau.jpg&w=230&h=284&ei=9nDWTvOBFIfjsQKyusT4Dg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=183&vpy=172&dur=5263&hovh=227&hovw=184&tx=134&ty=118&sig=110775551656274734034&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=109&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

  14. Unjust laws Exist • “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them a once?” • If men should resist unjust laws, the result of them breaking these laws, such as going to prison, is worst than all of the evil that is being done by the government, such as slavery, and war acts.

  15. Machine of government • “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out.” • If you let the machine of government run free, there is a chance that it will smooth out but soon break, and if you pay your taxes and support the evil that the government is committing the machine will run on, but most will pay their taxes for the fear of going to jail seeming it is worst that the over all evil, but when you realize the evil is worse than the consequences of breaking the law, you will become an agent that will stop the machine.

  16. Nine shillings • “If a man who has no property refuses but wants to earn nine shillings for the State, he is put in prison.” • If a man fails to pay his taxes he owes to the state, such as nine shillings, he will be put in jail for a length of time determined by one’s discretion of the matter, but if he were to steal ten times that, he shall soon be permitted to do it again.

  17. WORKS CITED • http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentaism/authors/thoereau/civil

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