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By: Emma Pils

Greensboro Sit-ins

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Bus Boycott (1956)

Birmingham (1963)

Birmingham Childrens Marches

Sit-ins (1960)

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The college students of Greensboro were involved

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Greensboro Sit-ins

Students were going to try and sit at an all-white counter at the Woolworths store in town

College students were involed in the sit-ins in Greensboro North Carolina. They had set out to try to desegragate their town. They attempted to sit at an all white counter to eat at the Woolworths store. They did not give up until it was desegragted which meant they went back every day no matter what happens.

This is important because it lead to Greensboro being desegregated and they also started sit in protests in other cities

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The marches in Alabama were very violent

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Birmingham Childrens Marches

This shows how the children in Birmingham were involved

Birmingham, Alabama was one of the most segregated cities in the south. The black people in this town wanted to desegregate it. Soon after the adults started marching too many of them were arrested. So their solution to this was to get the children involved

MLK was involved with the marches in Birmingham, Alabama along with the black children and adults

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Rosa Parks was very involved in the bus boycott and she wanted to have the buses be desegregated. She refused to give up her seat on a bus and then got arrested

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

This shows how people were committing to the boycott and rode their bikes instead of taking the buses

In Montgmery the black people were only allowed to sit in the black sections of the bus and they had to give their seats to whites if they needed it. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat which sent her to jail and started the bus boycott.

This shows how much people were committing for so long because the buses were empty