Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lead many of the peaceful demonstrations protesting
             the segregation between blacks and whites. His peaceful approach to many of the
             obstacles in the way of integration was the most successful during that time period. Other
             more violent means of protest such as the efforts of Malcom X and whites protesting
             integration were considered less seriously and seen as a greater threat to society.
             Examples of King's peaceful protesting against segregation were during the 1955-
             1956 Montgomery bus boycott. It begain when a 43 year old black woman, Rosa Parks,
             refused to give up her seat to a white man. Dr. King was appalled when she was arrested
             and urged the black population of Montgomery to join together and stand up to the
             dehumanization of segregation. Together with local community leaders, King produced
             and distributed nearly 7,000 leaflets persuading blacks to completely avoid riding to
             buses work, town, school, or elsewhere. Instead, people should take cabs, carpool, or
             walk. King was worried that the boycott was unethical, would turn violent, or would
             intimidate blacks However the boycott was succsessful with nearly 100% participation
             level. In 1956 the Supreme court affirmed a decision declaring that state and local laws
             supporting segregation on buses were unethical. On December 1 city busses were
             integrated showing that the boycott had been sucsessful.
             The civil rigths movement took a big step forward during the Greensboro sit-ins.
             Each day of the sit-ins the number of participants increased. The pressure they put on
             Woolworths, their original target, caused profits to be decreased by 50% in 1950.
             Eventually on July 25, the first black person was allowed to eat at the lunch counter.
             These sit-ins also caused the formation of crucial organizations. Student Non-violent
             Coodinating Commitee (SNCC) was founded by the students involved in the sit-ins...