Existing comment:
Violence:
Murder on Christmas Day:
As head of the Florida National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Harry T. Moore tirelessly protested lynchings and discrimination. He led a voter registration drive that added more than 100,000 African American voters. In 1951, on Christmas night, Moore's house was bombed -- killing him and his wife, Harriette. The attack shocked many Americans. Among those who expressed their outrage was Karl Schuppert of Reading, Pennsylvania, who insisted that President Harry S Truman not let the murder go "unsolved".
Non-Violence:
Boycott:
On December 1, 1955, after a long work day, Rosa Parks took a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The driver instructed her and three other African American passengers to vacate their seats for white passengers. When Parks remained seated, the bus driver called the police, who arrested and fingerprinted her. Afterwards, Montgomery's Women's Political Caucus called for a one-day boycott of city buses. It lasted more than a year. This February 24, 1956, report describes progress 11 weeks into the boycott. On December 20, 1956, the Supreme Court ordered Montgomery buses desegregated. |