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.

Section Contents

• The Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1980
• Sit-Ins
• The Greensboro Sit-Ins
• Wanted: Picketers
• The Freedom Riders
• Desegregating Public Accommodations in Durham
• Desegregating Hospitals
• The March on Washington, 1963
• The Precursor: Desegregating the Armed Forces
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• The Struggle for Voting Rights
• The Selma-to-Montgomery March
• The Voting Rights Act of 1965