Noah Serna Reading Questions: Dawson Barrett’s Chapter The 1960s: A MOVEMENT OF MOVEMENTS CRACKS IN THE SYSTEM 1. Give me 2 examples of groups/events that influenced the Civil Rights Movement and explain how they made an impact with two specific examples of changes that resulted from their activity The NAACP was one of the groups/events that influenced the Civil Right Movement by forming marches, such as “March on Washington”. The 1948 Democratic National Convention and other activities such as trying to stop segregation in the army. The NAACP’s achievements were to force the North and the South to take action against the segregation. Another accomplishment from the NAACP was the 1954 Supreme Court, which was also known as the Brown …show more content…
Describe the three events that Barrett outlines as bringing the movement to the attention of the public. The brutal murder of Emmett Till was one of the events that brought the movement to the attention of the public. In 1955, white supremacists tortured and murdered Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old. Till made a mistake by talking to a white female clerk at a grocery store. As a result, her husband and half-brother captured Till and beat him, killed him, and threw him in a river. The details of Till’s death went nationwide, and his funeral drew thousands of furious mourners. The Montgomery bus boycott was the second event that brought the movement to the attention of the public. After Till's murder, civil rights organizers in Montgomery launched a boycott of city buses. After many activists’ attempts to provoke the Jim Crow structure, Rosa Parks finally found success when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest led to the Women’s Political Council to call for a bus boycott. The boycott methods included carpooling, bicycling, and walking. The attacks, arrests, and the firebombings of homes and churches brought attention nationally to the campaign. The boycott succeeded when the Supreme Court denied the appeals to the Browder and Gayle