Context
This campaign ran in United States / nordamerika during 1960, around the issue of buergerrechte. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
- [source: black-students-sit-in-for-u-s-civil-rights-marshall-texas-1960]
Banners, posters, and displayed communications
- [source: black-students-sit-in-for-u-s-civil-rights-marshall-texas-1960]
Goal
The campaign sought to ‘[trunc] campaign on 3 april. Declarations by organizations and institutions
Segment Length
1.5 days
Notes on Methods
The students called for a boycott but it is unclear whether anyone actually participated in it. [source: black-students-sit-in-for-u-s-civil-rights-marshall-texas-1960]
Strategy & Tactics
The campaign’s strategy as described in the source: Leaders, partners, allies, elites
Leaders
Doxie Wilkerson
Roosevelt Peabody
John Rucker
George Holmes
Partners
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
External allies
Southern Christian Leaders Conference, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr
Opponent, Opponent Responses, and Violence
Nonviolent responses of opponent
At some point, white citizens start [source: black-students-sit-in-for-u-s-civil-rights-marshall-texas-1960]
Tactics used (per the structured record):
- framing-and-narrative [source: black-students-sit-in-for-u-s-civil-rights-marshall-texas-1960]
Outcome
Outcome: teilweise. Repressive Violence
Verbal abuse, Water hoses turned on demonstrators, Spectators threatened to turn dogs on protesters, Communist accusations against a faculty member, College president fires faculty members connected to sit-ins. [source: black-students-sit-in-for-u-s-civil-rights-marshall-texas-1960]
Lessons
What campaigners can take from this case: Case Study Details
Database Narrative
Marshall, Texas, despite having a black majority, practiced public and private racial segregation like most of the South in the 1950’s. [source: black-students-sit-in-for-u-s-civil-rights-marshall-texas-1960]
Lessons recorded (per the structured record):
- (no lessons recorded in the structured frontmatter) [source: black-students-sit-in-for-u-s-civil-rights-marshall-texas-1960]