Differences Of African Americans In The 1950s And 1960s

In the 1950s and 1960s there lived the idea “Separate but Equal”. This idea made it seem like it was just to segregate african americans from the rest of the U.S. The blacks used to idea of non-violence to solve this problem, even though the whites only used Violence and bullets. One of the first non-violent acts carried out by the African Americans was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This was caused because there was heavy segregation on buses, where all blacks had to sit at the back the whole time. Martin Luther King Jr. created this idea to try to inspire other types of defiance across the south. This act was imposed by African Americans for about a year. During this year they would find ways to carpool, they would walk to places, and they would ride their bikes. This caused the bus companies
The creation of this boycott put Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy in jail and it also caused the bombings of four churches and the homes of King and Abernathy. The bombing and violence only caused the eyes of whites to open, changing the viewpoint on segregation, and how badly the blacks were being treated. Another way the black peacefully protested was by creating peace songs,We Shall Overcome is a good example. These songs of protest were sang at marches or before speeches, and they showed defiance against all of the white people who segregated them. We Shall Overcome had become the unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement. These songs though not as important as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, still payed a big part in the movement. These songs would inspire these people to do great things. These