Civil Rights: The Greensboro Sit Ins and Perseverance!

“Do not give up!” is a phrase we hear Mrs. Felter say all the time. Things are going to be hard sometimes, we all know this is true. We have to decide what we are going to do when things get tough. Are we going to say, “This is too hard, I quit!” Or are we going to say, “This is hard but I can do it!” Imagine if the four men who started the Greensboro, North Carolina Sit Ins had said “This is too hard I quit!”

 

Civil Rights and Segregation: Separate but Equal

We have begun studying part of our state’s history, the Civil Rights Movement. One main idea that we need to understand is the concept of segregation. Segregation is when two groups are separated because they are different. In the South the races were segregated. Race means the color of your skin. We learned about this idea yesterday, when we discussed Ruby Bridge, the first black girl to attend an all white school in New Orleans.

Below, is a Slide Share with pictures of the South during segregation. The law was called, Separate but Equal. But, as you can see in the pictures, things were not equal between black and white citizens.