First,
Ruby was born in Tylertown,Mississippi on September 8th 1954.
“Ruby Bridges” was the first African American girl being escorted by United States to attend an all American white school.
Tulane University Presented Bridges with honorary degree in 2012. Ruby was born to sharecroppers Aborn and Lucille Bridges.Ruby parents decided to move the family to New Orleans in 1958 when Ruby was 4 years old.
Next,
“Martin Luther King Jr”.was born in Georgia in 1929.
The black community began to fight back against the racist Jim Crow Laws by the 1950.Much of this newfound support would appear in 1963. More than 250,000 people grouped together event to much thorough street of
Washington D.C. King made friends from the neighbor boys who was white when he was growing up.
“Malcolm X” was an African American civil right Leader.Malcolm was born in 1925. He grew up influe Malcolm was caught during a burglary at the age of 20.Three of his uncle were they were almost kill.Malcolm’s mother was left to raise her children alone,but suffered from a nervous breakdown.
Finitlly,
On May 4,1961 13 people set off on two public buses from Washington D.C.their mission was to protest racial segregation in bus terminals throughout the South. Seven of this people were black and six people were white. The Supreme Court had already declared to end segregation of bus terminals a year earlier. Together, they were the Freedom Riders.
In Conclusion,
Jim Crow Laws did not let black people access the same resources as white people . They made a society, where black citizens were seen as separate bathroom and different section on the bus. They even had to drink from different water fountains.Jim Crow Laws remained in effect for 100 years before they were deemed illegal in the 1960’s. This removal ended a long period unjust treatment.
In Conclouce,
The Civil Right Movement was successful because is that the world is NO longer segregation.