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Boycotts started as a political protest campaign. A big one was the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama when people intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on a public system. The boycott led to crippling the financial deficit for the system because the black population was the bulk of the system's ridership. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white man on the bus. But that soon led for the Supreme Court to declare that segregated buses to be unconstitutional.

Sit-ins was a form of direct action that involved people to occupy either a restaurant or other whites only area fr protes and promote political and social change.

Marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches, were marks in the political and emotional peak of the Civil Rights Movement. They grew from the voting rights movement. The First march took place on March 7, 1965, Bloody Sunday, when 600 marchers were attacked by the policewith clubs and tear gas. The second march took place on March 9th and the third on March 21st and lasted five days and they made it to Montgomery which was 51 miles away.