9/19 - The Civil Rights movement

The primary strategy that civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King used to combat segregation and discrimination in this period was ​ (a)  

• civil disobedience.
• armed revolt against the government
• getting into fistfights with police.
• forming armed militias.

Match the following pictures with who or what they are depicting.

• Civil Disobedience

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• Segregation

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• Martin Luther King, Jr

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• Rosa Parks

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Organize these options into the correct categories.

Groups:

(a) Examples of Civil Disobedience

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(b) Examples of segregation

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(c) Ways Segregation was enforced

• Forcing African-Americans to sit in the back of public transportation

• Suing state governments to protest whites-only schools

• Refusing service to all Hispanics and African-Americans at a restaurant.

• Using violence to prevent African-Americans from voting

• Marching into a government building to protest voting discrimination

• Risking arrest by trespassing in a whites-only business.

• Forcing African-Americans to take a test in order to vote.

• Murdering African-Americans who have been false accused of a crime

“We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering...We will not hate you, but we cannot obey your unjust laws...”

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This quotation is describing the strategy of ​ (a)  

• civil disobedience.
• economic boycotts
• violent resistance to oppression
• combatting segregation via lawsuits 

In 1-2 sentences, explain what you think Martin Luther King meant by "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."