HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Stokely Carmichael, Lunch Counter, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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A large number of african americans had been voting in the us for some time now. The cold war heightened sensitivity within the us regarding racial issues. By the end of the 1950s, we see the rise of martin luther king and the. Greensborough, nc feb 1960: nonviolent activism begins at woolsworth"s lunch counter when 4 young black students sat at the lunch counter but were refused service. The next day they came back with 23 other students refuse to move, don"t talk to anyone/bug anyone. Student non-violent coordinating committee (sncc: a protest organization of college students, the youth who are participating make nonviolence their philosophy but want a voice separate from their parents as part of the us. Freedom rides: launched to enforce integrated buses, an interracial team of volunteers boarded the buses and rode them across the south for over a year and a half.
