America’s Civil Rights Years—“Ain’t Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
- The training of their non-violent way of handling the issues was a success to them. They involved themselves in the sit-ins. The first day at the lunch counters, they were denied service, but they refused to leave rather chose to do their homework on the counters. By the second week, as told by Julian Bond, they had an encounter with the police, where about 80 demonstrators were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct (“Eyes On The Prize – (Part 3) Ain’t Scared of Your Jails 1960–1961”). The rise of the masses against segregation in a peaceful way was the success of the sit-ins. Maintaining peace was the most critical issue in their campaign.
The success of the boycott was a movement that was also as peaceful as the sit-ins. The boycotts helped in bringing more people into the campaign. The boycotts were seen as a way of making the system feel the pain of the people who were the regulars in the stores. The boycott was crucial to the campaign as they saw it as an opportunity to spread more non-violence tactics to the people in the boycott. As stated by Powell, the boycott had an impact as the stores recorded a decreased activity, and the (“Eyes On The Prize – (Part 3) Ain’t Scared of Your Jails 1960–1961”)y had to pressure the system to address the issue.
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The reaction to the bombing and the cool they maintained after the act was critical to the success of the movement. They marched peacefully, and in silence, about 4000 people moving in silence, as told by Rev. C.T Vivian, was a movement that threatened to tear the town to ethnicity (“Eyes On The Prize – (Part 3) Ain’t Scared of Your Jails 1960–1961”). They marched to the offices of the mayor and forced him to take a stand and address the situation. The bombing unified the black people into the non-violent movement to fight for equality.
Works cited
“Eyes On The Prize – (Part 3) Ain’t Scared of Your Jails 1960–1961.” YouTube, 14 Apr. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=neDpuJVc4Ko.