Class Updates: 3/13/13 and 3/14/13

Yesterday in class (3/13/13) we took PowerPoint notes on Sit-ins. Sit-ins were the most effective tactics of the Civil Rights movement they were non-violent protest. In Greensburg, NC in February, 1960, 4 African American students sat at a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth’s store after purchasing other items in the store. When the waitress and manger didn't serve them they sat there until the store closed and came back the next day with more African Americans and did the same thing. Whites became angry and poured condiments and other liquids over them and dropped lit cigarettes down their clothing. Today in class (3/14/13) we took notes and watched a video on Freedom-Riders.  The Freedom-Riders were African American and white people who took the bus from Washington, DC to New Orleans, LA. When the buses got to Alabama violence struck. The police allowed the angry whites to have 15 minutes to attack the bus riders after forcing the bus to a stop. The bus was set to fire and the angry whites attempted to burn them alive in the bus.