Civil Rights: The Peaceful Protests by Lauren Hanrion https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy en-us 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC 2024-10-01 20:30:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Journey of the Freedom Riders ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567714 Even though bus segregation was illegal in 1961, many southern states were not following Federal Law. The Freedom Riders gathered and headed South in order to promote the desegregation of buses throughout the country.]]> 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567714 KKK Attacks the Bus Riders ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567715 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567715 Freedom Riders Arrests ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567716 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567716 Montgomery Bus Company's Profit (Revenue) in the 1950s ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567717 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567717 Getting around Town ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567718 Even in Montgomery, enough African Americans owned private automobiles to ensure that people's vital transportation needs were met. Neighbors organized carpools and shared phone contacts to address unanticipated needs, such as having to take someone to the hospital. All these complex coordination tasks were achieved over the year-plus boycott. There was an important role of car ownership in the civil rights movement:

[T]he boycott might well have failed without it. Church-operated station wagons known as 'rolling churches' met people at designated pick-up points. Black-owned taxis and private cars were quickly organized into a system of alternate transportation. A downtown parking lot owned by a black man became the central command post for a fleet of cars that operated like shared taxicabs. Within weeks some three hundred vehicles were in the car pool.'

The city sought to block these efforts, but it failed, and private car ownership had a lot to do with it.     

[T]he boycotters persisted, using their private automobiles to drive around Jim Crow avoiding both its buses and its downtown businesses in segregated Montgomery.

Eventually, the Montgomery Bus Boycott led to such a loss in profit, that the company finally gave in. After little over a year of boycotting, the company banned segregation on buses. The next goal was to ban bus segregation on a larger scale--state-wide and country-wide. 
]]> 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567718 (Left) Claudette Colvin and (Right) Rosa Parks ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567719 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567719 The Story of Claudette Colvin ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567720 Please watch the video to see Colvin's efforts against Bus Segregation]]> 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567720 Diane Nash at the segregated counter in Tennessee ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567721 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567721 Interview with Diane Nash--Nashville, Tennessee ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567722 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567722 Interview with Nash, pt. 2 ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567723 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567723 Dockum Drug Store in Wichita, Kansas (1958) ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567724 The Dockum Drug Store, like many of the other popular eateries in downtown Wichita, refused to serve blacks at the counter. If they wished to purchase food in the restaurant, they had to order it at the end of the counter, and take it to go. Carol Parks Hahn, one of the planners of the sit-in, spoke of the embarrassment of being treated this way:

"You'd come in and go to the end of this counter and when you were served anything, it was in disposable containers," she said. "We never knew what it was to just sit there and have a glass and dishes." In order to try and put an end to this segregation Parks-Haun and her cousin Ron Walters decided to test the policy with a sit-in effort. Both were members of the local NAACP Youth Council, and felt equality needed to be brought to Wichita. At the time the city was segregated. As Walters put it, "It was Mississippi up north. So we tried to break it down….”

Starting July 19, 1958, Walters and Parks-Haun, with other young students, began entering the drugstore every day and filling the stools at the counter. They asked only that they be served a soft drink. They were neat and quiet, and caused no fuss. But the management continued to refuse service. The concept of peaceful resistance was fairly new at that time but would become common within a few years.

For a month the students continued to fill to drug store. A few white patrons cursed at them and questioned them, but the students held strong. Only a couple a times were they threatened. Finally on August 11 the owner relented, saying, “Serve them — I'm losing too much money.” This victory for the students became a victory for equality in Kansas. This eventually led to the Greensboro Sit-ins and many others.
]]> 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567724 Dockum Drug Store Today (2019) ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567725 When in Google Street View, look for the building with the sculpture of children at its front corner.]]> 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567725 Greensboro Sit-Ins ldh92290 https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567726 On the site, scroll down to view the photos of the sit-ins. ]]> 2020-02-08 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldh92290/tlizncjvd6xy/wish/442567726