1. Do now 11/7/16
Negroes – Sweet and docile. Meek, humble and kind. Beware the day they change their mind.
--Langston Hughes
How do you think this applies to modern day events (consider Ferguson, Baton Rouge, etc.)

2. Chapter 10, Section 2
Define:
Boycott
Sit-in

3. Baton Rouge Bus Boycott
Bus system: first 10 seats for white passengers, the rest for blacks.
If black seats were taken, they had to stand.
If all white seats were taken, blacks had to give up their seats.

4. T.J. Jemison spoke out against the seating.
The city council compromised that blacks could sit in any seat as long as no white passengers were standing.
Bus drivers refused to enforce the new law.

5. When pressured to enforce the law, drivers went on strike.
A second boycott was organized.
Final compromise: first 2 seats on city buses would be reserved for white passengers. The back row would be reserved for black passengers. People of any race could sit in between

6. Was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of NAACP at the time
Rosa Parks
Was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of NAACP at the time
Was arrested and jailed for not giving up her seat to a white passenger.

7. Minister Activist Member of the NAACP Powerful speaker
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Minister
Activist
Member of the NAACP
Powerful speaker
Became the face of the Montgomery bus boycott and the Civil Rights Movement

8. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery buses:
1. required blacks to sit in colored section
2. black could not share a row with white passengers
3. if the white section was full, an entire row of blacks had to stand so the white passenger could sit.

9. Crippled the bus industry of Montgomery.
Results of Boycott
Crippled the bus industry of Montgomery.
An NAACP led lawsuit went the U.S. Sup. Court which ruled that segregation on city buses was unconstitutional.
That ruling overturned Montgomery’s bus segregation laws and buses were integrated.

10. The Montgomery bus boycott launched the modern civil rights movement.

11. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
King and other civil rights leaders
King was elected the first president
The group highlights the important role that churches played in the civil rights movement.

12. Started the philosophy of nonviolent protest
Mohandas Gandhi
Started the philosophy of nonviolent protest
This philosophy was used by King and other groups during the C.R.M.

13. Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
Trained students in the strategy of nonviolence and organized civil rights demonstrations.

14. Work on Chapter 10 questions and opinions
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Work on Chapter 10 questions and opinions

15. Chapter 10, Section 2 questions
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Chapter 10, Section 2 questions
Chapter 10, Section 2 opinion questions
Work from another class