What I learned...
After listening to the first EOTO (Each One Teach One) group, I learned more about Jontogomaery Bus Boycott. It was a civil rights protest in which African Americans refused to take the bus. It took place in Montgomery, Alabama from December 5, 1955, to December 20,1956. It was four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to give her seat up to a white man. Approximate 40000 black bus riders boycotted the next day.
Another thing I learned was The Freedom Riders. This was a very significant movement after the trial Plessy v Ferguson was. the Freedom Riders. This group consisted of African American and white citizens who joined together to protest segregated bus terminals. Starting in Washington D.C., these groups drove buses to the segregated south to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decision on segregated buses, which was not legal due to the 14th Amendment. They started to encounter protests and members started to become arrested in significant numbers in Virginia. But when they reached South Carolina some groups members were beaten and more arrests occurred. Along the journey through the South, they were constantly told they would never make it through Alabama and should stop immediately.
One event the stood out to me from the other EOTO groups was, "Bloody Sunday". Bloody Sunday is the term used for the tragedies that happened during the civil rights march known as the Selma to Montgomery Marches, in 1965 in Selma, Alabama. This civil rights march was supposed to go from Selma Alabama to Montgomery Alamba to protest the death of activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was shot in the stomach and killed by a local officer while troops were breaking up another peaceful protest in Marion, Perry County. These were nonviolent activists peacefully marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge to proceed with the march from Selma to Montgomery.
Another was Little Rock Nine Crisis, as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School . They made their way through a crowd shouting obscenities and even throwing objects. Once the students reached the front door the National Guard prevented them from entering the school and were forced to go home. In 1954 the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were illegal.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bloody-sunday-in-northern-ireland
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott
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