NON-VIOLENT PROTEST

WHAT IS NON-VIOLENT PROTEST ?

• It's a lack of violence, like not really any violence in the protest
• Letters of opposition or supports
• Signed public statements
• Public speechess
• Group petitions

FACTS ABOUT THE THE MOVEMENT

• 1948 -- President Truman issues an order outlawing segregation in U.S. military.
• 1950's, African Americans came together for nonviolent protests known as the Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Movement actually began as far back in American history as 1783
• Americans Fought to be treated as equal citizens in the United States

DR.MARTIN LUTHER KING

• Bring publicity to major civil rights activities and efforts
• Provide leadership to the African-American civil rights movement
• Providing leadership in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955
• Made the " I Have a Dream " speech

IN MEMORY OF MLK