Civil Rights
The 1960's were one of the most significant decades in the twentieth century. The sixties were filled with new music, clothes, and an overall change in the way people acted, but most importantly it was a decade filled with civil rights movements. On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College in Greensboro went to a Woolworth's lunch counter and sat down politely and asked for service. The waitress refused to serve them and the students remained sitting there until the store closed for the night. The very next day they returned, this time with some more black students and even a few white ones. They were all well dressed, doing their homework, while crowds began to form outside the store. A columnist for the segregation minded Richmond News Leader wrote, "Here were the colored students in coats, white shirts, and ties and one of them was reading Goethe and one was taking notes from a biology text. And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of them, God save the mark, were waving the proud and honored flag of the Southern States in the last war fought by gentlemen. Eheu!
King was arrested in October of 1960 at a major Atlanta department store. ; he wet to India as a missionary and studied the philosophy of nonviolence with disciples of Ghandi (Adams 49). Flacks was a previous leader of SDS (Chalmers 74). Seventy people went to the hospital that day. The sixties granted them their well-deserved rights. Johnson won the '64 election by a landslide. It was here that King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He ended up spending most of his summer vacation in jail that summer. As one can see, African-Americans didn't have it easy trying to gain their civil rights. In 1961, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African-Americans admitted into Wayne State University (Adams 6). King was kept in jail on a charge of violating probation for a previous traffic arrest case. Although the march to Montgomery was successful, the trip back was not for one white housewife who was driving marchers back.
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