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Imagine sitting at home with your family watching T.V. or eating dinner when all of a sudden, a brick comes flying through your window crashing upon the floor. If you were an African American back in the 60’s, that is what most likely happened to you if white people didn’t like you. African Americans also got it off pretty easy if that’s all that happened to them. Racism during the 1960’s was a very severe problem and affected many African Americans culminating in the Civil Right Movement. Everything was separated back then. There were places where only whites could go and places where African Americans could go. But on February 1st, college students in the south started something that would change all that. They called it a “sit-in”, and what it was, was African Americans sitting at the counter tops of white only restaurants hoping to get food, but what they got was unfair. Many were arrested and some were even killed for this act (Hornsby, Alton Jr. Chronology of African American History page 108). This not only happened in restaurants but also on public transportations as well. Rosa Parks was the main person who got punished for sitting in a white only section on a bus. The bus driver just kept asking her and asking her to move to the “black” section on the bus but she was tired from work and refused to move so the bus driver called local police men and they came and arrested her. People got word about this and it sparked a new idea in African Americans that rode busses. “Freedom Riders” were African Americans that sat in the white only seats on busses and refused to move. One time in Montgomery Alabama, a bus full of “Freedom Riders” were traveling down to the south hoping to be arrested so they could make a point to the government.
Approximate Word count = 1206
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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