African Americans Dbq

Documents: A, B, D

Outside Information 1: Rosa Park’s decision to sit in the front of a public bus despite the fact that it was illegal to do so since it was reserved for white people exemplifies the use of nonviolence to combat segregation. Her primary goal in making this decision of showing resistance against the implementation of segregation in the South was to effectively make the statement to segregationists that African Americans were tired of giving in to racist policies. This ultimately symbolizes the point African Americans felt in engaging in non violence because of how they wanted to make people aware of the feelings they felt so segregation could come to an end.

Outside Information 2: Another way activists pursued racial equality

Creating this political party made it so the African Americans would be able to engage in politics themselves which they hoped would give them equality since they would not have to deal with the Whites in gaining political rights. Hence, the extent in which African Americans would go to separating themselves to support their race is evident in this type of way to get involved with politics.

Outside Information 2: Many African Americans would attempt to demonstrate their desire for a racial identity by increasing the prevalence of a culture separate from that of the Whites. This would include the increase in Black studies in colleges, the emergence of new Black literary and artistic movements, and growth of Black fashion styles which aimed at showing how the Blacks felt proud in their identity and did not want that much influence from the Whites. Thus, the emergence of this African American identity at this time heavily demonstrates the strong attitudes African Americans had towards being treated as an equal race deserving of

The frustration African Americans were beginning to increasingly feel in the mid to late 1960’s was heavily evident in the attitude of allowing violence to be used because many African Americans were becoming unsatisfied with the slow pace they were reaching equality as well as the retaliation against them. Hence, the movement of the Civil Rights movement away from being content with sticking to nonviolent tactics symbolizes the determination African Americans wanted to gain equal rights even by inflicting