How Did Martin Luther King Impact The Civil Rights Movement
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a part of civil right movement. It was a protest against the racial segregation policy in public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was started on December 1, 1955. On that day, a large number of black people of Montgomery, Alabama were decided that they will boycott the public transport system until they get right to sit anywhere they want in transportation system
In Montgomery there was a rule that in municipal buses there were separate coaches for white up front and black in back.
This movement begin when a women named Rosa Parks (Black women) traveling in public bus. During travel, driver of that bus asked Rosa to leave her seat for a white person. She refuse to leave her seat. She was arrested and …show more content…
King’s. He helped in foundation of Southern Christian Leadership conference (SCLC). This organization worked for the end of segregation in South America. ”The SCLC was influential in the civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, and the March on Washington in August of that same year, during which King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The boycott also brought national and international attention to the civil rights struggles occurring in the U.S., as more than 100 reporters visited Montgomery during the boycott to profile the effort and its leaders” .
In his role as SCLC president he travelled across the country and around the world. He did Birmingham campaign in 1963, one of the America’s most racially divided cities. He was arrested. He penned here the civil rights manifesto known as, ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’.
Later on Martin Luther King Jr. organized ‘March on Washington’ on 28 August 1963. More than 200,000 people were in attendance at Lincoln Memorial when King delivered his famous speech- ‘I Have a Dream’. He was declared ‘Man of the Year’ by TIME magazine and became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize.
He helped to bring about the legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of
In Montgomery there was a rule that in municipal buses there were separate coaches for white up front and black in back.
This movement begin when a women named Rosa Parks (Black women) traveling in public bus. During travel, driver of that bus asked Rosa to leave her seat for a white person. She refuse to leave her seat. She was arrested and …show more content…
King’s. He helped in foundation of Southern Christian Leadership conference (SCLC). This organization worked for the end of segregation in South America. ”The SCLC was influential in the civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, and the March on Washington in August of that same year, during which King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The boycott also brought national and international attention to the civil rights struggles occurring in the U.S., as more than 100 reporters visited Montgomery during the boycott to profile the effort and its leaders” .
In his role as SCLC president he travelled across the country and around the world. He did Birmingham campaign in 1963, one of the America’s most racially divided cities. He was arrested. He penned here the civil rights manifesto known as, ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’.
Later on Martin Luther King Jr. organized ‘March on Washington’ on 28 August 1963. More than 200,000 people were in attendance at Lincoln Memorial when King delivered his famous speech- ‘I Have a Dream’. He was declared ‘Man of the Year’ by TIME magazine and became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize.
He helped to bring about the legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of