Civil Rights Movement Major Events Fact Sheet

Directions: Based on your peers' presentations, complete the notes on each event which demonstrated civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is
something that Martin Luther King advocated. We will use the information from the chart to answer a summative question where you will determine
if civil disobedience was a successful way in which to advocate for equality. Use bullet points, I am not looking for complete sentences.

Event Goal Event Details How did it make the African American
Community look? Explain.

Selma to ● 525-600 people ● Was a success, and was a big turning

Montgomery ● Beating with sticks, clubs, tear gas, ships, point
Gain people of color’s rubber tubing wrapped with barbed wire ● Voting right act was passed
Marches right to vote. ● More than 300 people were arrested

Freedom ● There was 7 African Americans and 6 ● It was a success because people were
Riders white people that left washington allowed to sit wherever on a bus.
Challenge segregation greyhound bus with the freedom riders
on buses ● After a news article there were hundreds
participating.

Montgomery ● Approximately 40,000 black people The Supreme Court ruled that segregated
Bus boycotted buses buses were unconstitutional.
● Snipers were fired into buses. IT succeed
Boycotts Goal was to sit
anywhere they wanted
to on a bus
Little Rock
Nine
Wanted to challenge
school segregation
Children's
Crusade
Wanted to bring
attention to civil right by
having kids protest,
March on
Washington Wanted to end
segregation, fair wages,
economic justice, voting
rights, and education.
Greensboro Wanted to disrupt
business activities
● 9 students entered a all white high school ● Helped desegregate schools.
● National guard prevented them from
entering
● Returned with troops to protect them and
get inside.
● Verbal and physical harassment.
● Over 5,000 students protesting ● People listened more with when children
● Police released dog on protesters and were involved
sprayed them with really strong hoses ● Caught attention of President JFK
● Estimated amount of 250,000 people ● Succeed in their goals the march was a
● huge success
● On the start only 4 people protested ● In then end most allowed it and the ones
● On the second day around 29 black dad didn't eventually were forced to
Sit-ins university students joined in the protest allow black people service
and that number kept going up.