Civil Rights Movement

Children's Crusade

In May 1963, a Christian minister and SCLC leader James Bevel organized the "Children's Crusade,“. This march was in Birmingham, the city where there was more opposition to the integration.

Children's Crusade

In this march only participated children and was a pacific protest, but the police used dogs and fire hoses to disperse the march.

The Children’s crusade became in a violent march.

Children's Crusade

This march was a failure and a success.

It was a failure because the march was disperse and some children were hurt.

But also it was a success because this act shocked all the country and the people could see the reality and that civil rights had to be equal for all the people.

Children's Crusade

Bus Boycott

This case got that the law of segregation in buses was eliminated in some cities.

All black people participated in this movement but the mains participants were Rosa Parks and MLK .

Rosa Parks didn't wonted to get up from his seat the bus for another white person sit in him, for this motive she went to a jail and she had to pay a fine.

Bus Boycott

Bus Boycott

This act wasn’t violent, black people didn't use buses for go to work and like a lot of bus driver were black persons, the line of buses stopped for 381 days.

They got to have a judgment to prohibit the segregation.

But some white people thought that was a bad idea and the attacked a black people in their homes, schools…

Bus BoycottThis act was a success because the racial segregation was prohibited in buses of Montgomery and the act had a lot of repercussion in all the country.

But only was a small victory because single was canceled one law of segregation and there were a lot of laws more that doing impossible the equality.

The March on

Washington 

The March on Washington The march was in the nation's capital on August 28, 1963.

Thousand of black and white people joined to protest against the racial segregation that suffered the black people.

In this act participated civil and leaders of different organizations like Dr. Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins…These important persons did several speeches calling the freedom.

This march wasn’t violent. People did a march to Lincoln Memorial for

reclaim the equality for all Americans because the segregation was unconstitutional and a injustice for the society because all people are equal.

The March on Washington 

The march didn’t get to change the things but was a important signal for advance to get the equality.

The speech that said Dr. Martin Luther King got that a lot of persons felt free and had hope that the equality was possible

The March on Washington 

I think that the best way to get something is using the dialogue and doing pacific actions, I believe that never must to use the violence because the violence only leads to more violence and you never get your objective.

Do you think violent or nonviolent protest strategies were more effective?

By:

Lucía Catalán Báguena

Escuelas Pías School, Spain.