5 Achieving civil rights, 1960–1965
Four A&T College students sit in seats designated for white people at the racially segregated Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960. Greensboro News & Record photo by Jack Moebes. . About the photograph
Following Martin Luther King’s model of nonviolent protest, civil rights activists held sit-ins, boycotts, marches, and demonstrations throughout the 1960s. The process of breaking down Jim Crow was not easy, but by 1965, federal civil rights legislation guaranteed equal access to public accommodations and the polls. In this chapter we’ll read stories of protest and change from North Carolina and across the South.
- 5.1The Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1980
- 5.2Sit-ins
- 5.3The Greensboro sit-ins
- 5.4Wanted: Picketers
- 5.5The Freedom Riders
- 5.6Desegregating public accommodations in Durham
- 5.7Desegregating hospitals
- 5.8The March on Washington, 1963
- 5.9The Civil Rights Act of 1964
- 5.10The struggle for voting rights
- 5.11The Selma-to-Montgomery March
- 5.12The Voting Rights Act of 1965
