Civil+Rights+1955+to+Present

__ Introduction __ The Civil Rights movement of 1955 to present (2008), has a lot of large events that happened, and many people involved. They had many riots and many people were killed. But the Civil Rights movement changed many people lives, of all the different races!
 * //__ Fighting to be Treated Equal __//**

__ The Boycott’s __ Rosa Parks:  On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, after being told by the man and by Ala, a Montgomery bus driver. She was then arrested and was sent to Jail. This event started a boycott that lasted for a year. Blacks and other people, who were against the separated races, didn’t ride the bus anymore. They walked everywhere they went. Fortunately the buses then weren’t making enough money because there weren’t enough people riding the buses. So they went out of business. This event became known as "__The Montgomery Bus Boycott.” __ Entering a White High School: On September in 1957, 9 black students tried to enter an all White Central High School. The police and staff stopped them at the door and wouldn’t let them come in. This caused a lot of commotion. So President Eisenhower had to send federal troops to the school and help the students enter. When the students got into the school they were decremented against.

Sit In: On February 1, 1960 in Greensboro N.C. 4 black college students went into a small little restaurant and sat down at a “whites only” lunch counter. They waited to be served but never were. They sat there until the doors were closed. For the next 6 days many blacks began to come and join the sit in. They all sat together waiting to be served until the doors closed. They kept trying until they were served just as the whites were.

Picture: Rosa Parks- http://www.wc.pdx.edu/rosaparks/rosaparks.html