The document discusses key events and tactics of the American Civil Rights Movement between 1955-1961. It outlines protests like the Little Rock 9 integrating a high school in 1957, Rosa Parks sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-56, and sit-ins at Woolworth's lunch counters in 1960. Non-violent civil disobedience, inspired by Gandhi, was a primary tactic used through events like the Freedom Rides protesting bus segregation policies in 1961. Martin Luther King Jr. also emerged as a leader advocating non-violence during this transformative era.