During the 1950's, discrimination was still going on. Americans were not happy with living or working equally as blacks. In the 1950's Jim Crow laws "separate but equal" were passed by a majority of states. These laws authorized legal punishments for associating with the opposite race. This caused The Civil Rights Movement to begin and it started gaining popularity. The sit-in movement started in the 1960's and this was one of the non violent strategies that people used in order to gain supporters for equality.
This first happened in North Carolina on February 1, 1960, when African American students refused to leave the lunch counter until they were served food.
One of the most important results of these actions was that students from across the country became active participants in the civil right movement.
Martin Luther King Jr. helped African Americans gain supporters with these strategies. Among these supporters weren't just black but also whites who were fighting for equality.
U. (2017). The Sit-In Movement. Retrieved May 11, 2017, from http://www.ushistory.org/us/54d.asp
Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation. (2016, November 28). Retrieved May 12, 2017, from http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/jim-crow-laws-andracial-segregation/
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