Students and the civil rights movement 2013
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The document discusses the strategy, methods, and key figures of the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. The strategy targeted education, using both symbolic and practical non-violent forms of resistance like marches, sit-ins, and boycotts. Key influences and leaders mentioned include Mohandas Gandhi, who first used non-violence on a large scale, as well as Bayard Rustin, James Lawson, and workshops held in Birmingham, Alabama, which led to the Children's Crusade protests and arrests of thousands in 1963.
Students and the civil rights movement 2013
- 2. Strategy 0 Education was primary target 0 Graduate schools, universities, grade schools 0 Symbolic and practical 0 Inherently involved students
- 3. Methods 0 Legal 0 Non-violent resistance (Direct action) 0 Marches, Sit-ins, Teach-ins, Boycotts
- 4. Gandhi 0 First person to use non- violence to political scene on large scale 0 Influences: Platos Apology, William Salter's Ethical Religion (1889); Henry David Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1847); Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893), A Letter to a Hindu (1908) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MKGandhi.jpg
- 5. Bayard Rustin 0 Founding member of CORE 0 Organized 1947 Journey of Reconciliation 0 Taught MLK Gandhian nonviolence 0 Organized 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 0 Gay rights activist http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.01272/
- 6. James Lawson 0 Trained in non-violent direct action 0 CORE activist 0 Headquartered in Nashville: Vanderbilt, Fisk 0 Worked for SCLC and SNCC http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=18
- 7. Methods 0 How? 0 Workshops 0 Practice http://www.crmvet.org/images/imghome.htm
- 9. Childrens Crusade 0 Birmingham, AL, May 2-5, 1963 0 Massive arrests- 1,000 on May 2. 3,000 in jail by May 10 0 Bull Connor 0 Dogs and Fire hoses 0 News media
- 16. Assessment 0 Did it work? 0 Why? http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgfr.htm