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Villard’s
founder of NAACP
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earlier protests, in contrast with most later ones, was that they were successful.
the early protests were successful and they brought ideas that would later be used in protests like sit-ins, boycotts, and mass street demos
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collective action, sustained commitment, and the determination to achieve fundamental changes in the social order and in the power relations that sustained it.
goal of civil rights activists
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Thus Carrie rode the rest of the sixty miles to Danville undisturbed. Years later, family lore would celebrate her rebellion as “a Rosa Parks moment,” an unsung rehearsal for the iconic beginning of the Civil Rights Movement ten years later.
She just visited her dying husband in the hospital, and she's heading back to Virginia. When she got on the bus to go home, white college students sat in the "colored" designated seats so she sat in a white only seat in the front. She refused to get up when demanded to but no one forced her off the bus.
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