b. Non-violent methods: Popular participation and direct action
Brown vs Topeka and Little Rock were key milestones for the Civil Rights campaign and both had involved the Supreme Court as a way of getting change. The publicity surrounding Little Rock also allowed the whole world to see the impact of segregation in the US. The 1950s and 1960s saw greater popular participation through the use of direct action by ordinary people as part of the civil rights campaign to improve civil...