HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Nonviolence, Phyllis Schlafly, Stokely Carmichael
Document Summary
Rise of king through southern christian leadership conference. Four black students stage a sit-in at the whites-only lunch counter at woolworth s. Store closed early, but returned with 23 classmates. End of the week, 1,000 students are supporting the sit-in, across the city. End of the month, 54 cities involved in sit-ins across the country. Those at lunch counters had food thrown at them, verbal abuse. This disruption meant businesses, of their own accord, began to change business policy; protest successful without court intervention. By easter, 300 students formed the student non-violent coordinating committee - Sncc agrees with sclc, but want a younger driving force. 1961, core (coalition on racial equality) and sncc combine. Desegregation was legal, but not enforced, and freedom riders wanted to challenge segregated transit: started in dc, buses stopping in rockhill and atlanta would receive physical and verbal abuse, violence waited at each city.
