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Overcoming Oppression

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OVERCOMING OPPRESSION

Thesis:
The underrepresented can make change by disrupting economic and social systems of the oppressive through peaceful protests and boycotts.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Black refused to use segregated buses. This boycott lasted 381 days. 75% of the bus rider population was black and now 90% of them participated in the boycott. People would rather walk and take taxis than take segregated buses that charged them more than the whites for a less quality ride.

All the sudden for a year and 15 days 67.5% of the bus population or 40,000 black people weren't paying the bus service. The bus services were crashing due to lack of money at ten cents per person they lost around 4,000 dollars per day over 381 days. That means that people are going to be fired and laid off and buses would have eventually been shut down. (Joe Azbell) if the remaining 25% of the riders slowly lost their means of transportation then the buses would be equal. No one rides, no one is separated.

Rosa Parks the famous women who helped a great deal on this boycott said “People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” She said this after the success of the bus boycott because she didn't want to be known as the women that was tired but rather as the women who was fed up and needed to make a change. Economic boycotts change the laws by putting economic pressure on the system.

LUNCH COUNTER PROTEST

"Friendship Nine" the first protesters to be arrested for the lunch counter sit-ins.

In 1960 the sit-ins began in Greensboro, NC with four black students sat at a lunch counter and asked to be served. These four had to sit there without leaving and without fighting back. (Thomas, Selma)

They started a revolution hundreds of students joined the protests in just six months. The store this took place at is not the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.

After three month 55 other cities in 13 states had been struck with the movement of sit-ins. (The Sit-in Movement)

One student of Lane College named Ruby L. Brown recalled "At Woolworth's and McLellan's, we went in to sit-down only to have a mob form. We sat there while they kicked us for 2 1/2 hours. It was then they decided to throw us out." (The sit-ins)

For a oppressed and small group to overcome the superiority of the high race the must disrupt the economic and social systems the hold the oppressive together. As Malcolm X once said "We will never communicate talking one language and he's talking another language. He's talking the language of violence...Let's learn his language. If his language is with a shotgun, get a shotgun.”

These sit-ins created chaos and violence and disrupted the normal social systems that held together the oppressive the disruption led to mass arrest and people overflowed the jails. And they once again we see the disruption of economics in the jails due to the cost of all the prisoners they must feed and keep the power on. Taxes would have to go up to compensate.

WORK CITED

  • "The Sit-in Movement". International Civil Rights Center & Museum. Retrieved 18 Dec.2016.
  • Thomas, Selma. "Woolworth's Lunch Counter - Separate Is Not Equal." Woolworth's Lunch Counter - Separate Is Not Equal. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2016.
  • "The Sit-ins - October 1960 - Civil Rights - A Jackson Sun Special Report." The Sit-ins - October 1960 - Civil Rights - A Jackson Sun Special Report. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2016.
  • Joe Azbell, ‘‘Blast Rocks Residence of Bus Boycott Leader,’’ 31 January 1956, in Papers 3:114–115.

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  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Nonviolence and Racial Justice." The Christian Century, February 6, 1957, pp. 165-167.
  • Malcolm X, speech at Harlem Rally, 1964.
  • Lewis, John, with Michael D'Orso. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.