How Did J Robinson's Movement Affect The Civil Rights Movement

Throughout the 243 years that the United States of America has been an independent country, African Americans have been discriminated against and thought of as less than other races in the country. In the mid 1900’s, changes started being pushed into motion. The Modern Civil Rights Movement was a mass movement in which millions of people participated. The goal of the movement was to desegregate and create equality for African American citizens throughout the country on a national level (NPS 1). The movement officially began in 1954 after the passing of Brown V. Board by the Supreme Court which gave African Americans the right to the same education as their Caucasian fellow students (LOC 1). Many events occurred during the time between Brown V. Board and the Bus Boycott Movement that began
Robinson grew up in Colldon, Georgia and became a professor at Atlanta University. A year prior to the arrest of Rosa Parks, Robinson made a plan for a bus boycott and petitioned for a legal boycott from the mayor. (The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1). At this time, there simply wasn’t enough support and propulsion from outside people to really push any movement into action. However, when Martin Luther King Jr. came into the picture as a crucial leader, a lot more awareness of this was brought to the national spotlight. King had a choice of who to elect to take a stand on the bus and after consideration, ultimately, Rosa Parks was chosen to be the spark which ignited the movement on the bus on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery County. “Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on 4 February 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks grew up in Montgomery and was educated at the laboratory school of Alabama State College” (“Parks, Rosa” 1). Parks then went on to become a secretary for the NAACP and was a local seamstress who, while being soft spoken, constantly defied segregation laws and tried to make changes before King came into the