In the 1950s, a black man in the South was expected to lower his eyes when he passed a white man on the street.
The nonviolent activists boycotted buses, flouted Jim Crow laws, staged marches, and filled up.
Civil Rights workers were demanding equal Rights for blacks.
That was how traditional Southern society had been for more than 300 years but times were changing.
They were even buried in separate graveyards.
African-American and white citizens attended separate schools, restaurants, and parks.
In the 1950s, a black man in the South was expected to lower his eyes when he passed a white man on the street