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In this essay I'm going to talk about what lunch sit ins are and what exactly went on during sit ins. I'm also going to talk about Jim Crow and what affect these laws had. I'm going to tell you what some of the laws were. For my third topic I'm going to talk about the freedom riders. I will also cover what impact freedom riders had on sit ins. Civil disobedience is when an individual or a group of people refuse to follow a law, but they do not use violence towards those who enforce the law. The US society has come to accept nonviolent actions. Sit ins are an organized protest demonstration in which participants seat themselves in an appropriate place and refuse to move. They did this to protest racial discrimination. In 1960 Joseph McCain, David Richmond, and Ezell Blair Jr, all walked into a store to purchase some school supplies. They then went over to the lunch counter to be served some lunch. These four men knew that they probably would not be served. These four men were black, and this lunch counter was segregated. One of the students said "we believe, since we can buy books and paper in the other part of the store, we should get served in this part." They were forced to leave the store as it was closing. At this point they still had not been served. As you can tell this sit in had little effect. They had hoped that is would turn out better than it did. People continued to set up and do sit ins. Stores started to catch on to what was going on, so they started to post NO TRESPASSING signs in the windows. If they had been served at one lunch counter then they would move to the next one. If they don't get served then they would sit there until they are served. If by chance they got arrested, a new group would take their places. Another part of sit ins was that students would be dressed in their Sunday best. What i would like to talk about next is the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti black laws. It was just the way of life. Many christian leaders began to think that white people were the chosen ones, and that black people were made to be servants. They also thought that God supported racial segregation. Writers started to refer to blacks as niggers, coons, and darkies. A black male could not offer his hand to a white male. This implied being socially equal. Blacks and whites were not allowed to eat together. If they ate together, whites were to be served before the blacks. Some sort of partition was to be placed between them. Blacks were not allowed to show any sort of affection in public. Especially kissing was not allowed because it was said to offended the whites. Jim Crow etiquette said that blacks were to be introduced to whites, never whites introduced to blacks. In the south, schools, buses, restaurants, hotels, even water fountains, almost everything was segregated. If a black and white fell in love they could not marry. The North and West aren't as blatant about it, but separation and prejudice exist across the land. I am now going to talk just a little bit about freedom riders. Freedom riders is a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities. On buses the blacks had to sit on the back of the bus and if they had a seat they had to give up their seats to the whites. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in the segregated south. As you can tell, all of my subjects have to do with racism. Before I had to do this essay, I didn't realize how bad racism used to be back then. To me it is so sad that blacks could not even drink from the same drinking fountain as whites. It seems like that would be pushing things a little too far. It is sad that blacks and whites couldn't even share the same bathroom. Today racism is not nearly as bad as it used to be. Now days the racism is not necessarily against the blacks. Back then there is no way they would have ever had a black president, but now today we do so that shows that we have changed a lot.