jujo monkey: Fight for rights:

After nearly a century of living segregated African Americans started fighting back. To challenge education inequality, social segregation, and to gain voting rights; African Americans created organizations that organized public demonstrations, and challenged racial laws in court.
Sice founded in 1909, the NAACP had gave assistance to many African Americans that were being unfairly charged or that their crime wasd based on racialhate. This organization used cases like Rosa Parks and Linda Browns to end with segregation. The NAACP was also responsible of organizing civil movements like the Montgomery bus Boycott, where African Americnas challenged public transportation segregation by refusing to take buses until they were integrated. After walking to work for nearly a year, the Supreme Court declared that segregatio in public transportation was unconstitutional. The Succes of movements like the Montgomery bus Boycott led to the creation of more organization and the increase in African Americnas use of civil disobedience.

Martin Luther King Jr., a prominent leader of the bus boicott in Montgomery and the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, had become the face of the civil rights movement. He, inspired by Gandi's civil rights movement in India, encouraged African Americans to practice civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to challenge segregation. These practices cought the attention of the nation and gave theme support from the public as they were attaked unfairly by white officers and civilians. One of the ways of ways they practice Gandi's doctrine wasby using sit-ins. In sit- ins a group of African Ameircans would stay in public places and businesses until they were integrated.

Another from of peaceful protest were the "Freedom Rides". In "Freedom Rides" black sat in the front of the bus and whites in the back to challenge bus segregation in interstate busses and to force the Federal government to enfontay anti segregationa laws.The original "Freedom Riders" left Washington DC on May 4, 1961 with the hope of reaching New Orleans on May 17 of the same year. These "Freedom Ride" ended on May 14, as the two groups of riders were attaked by mobs when they attempted to cross Alabama. Even though " Freedom Riders" could not reach New Orleans they made a valuable contribution to Civil Right movement.

Using civil disobedience and peaceful resistance African Americans could achived more civil rights and put an end to segregation. Their movement served as base for other civil right movements as their method of protest proved to be effective. Thanks to those barave citiznes today not only African Americans but other groups as well have gained freedom and equality, that is why we must be greatful and give them our gratitud.