How Important Was The Civil Rights Movement In The 1950's
The Civil rights movement of the 1950’s was a very significant part of history for the African American community and the rest of America in that it paved the way for future Civil Rights gains. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s impacted the African American community tremendously throughout its brave leaders, organizations, and table turning tactics.
The civil rights movement could never have succeeded the way it did without the help of some of its very brave leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Daisy Bates.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and Minister who impacted the 1950’s movement in many ways. He was known for using non-violent tactics, the method he learned from the Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi. King believed that using these non-violent methods would help others states to witness the violence toward the black community, and to show the reason why blacks can't succeed the way they want to. For example of one …show more content…
the many non-violent methods, on December 1, 1955 Rosa parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white male violating the Montgomery City Code. King, and at the time head of the NAACP E.D Nixon planned a city wide bus boycott later called the Montgomery Bus Boycott. King, was chosen to be the leader of the boycott mostly because he seemed professional, he was new so he had few people against him, and he was young. The boycott lasted for over a year, and turned out to be a huge success for the black community. After the boycott victory, Martin Luther King Jr. and other black civil rights leaders felt the need that the black community needed an organization to help with non-violent activities, and ended up forming the Southern Christian Leadership Conference also know as the SCLC.
Rosa Parks, named“The Mother of the civil rights movement” was a very important factor in starting up the civil rights movement of the 1950’s mostly because of her braveness in the incident that occurred in 1955. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and sat in the designated “colored peoples” section that was according to Alabama's segregation laws. After a couple of stops the “white” section of the bus was all filled up and bus driver James F. Blake ordered Parks to give up her seat since there were several white men standing in the aisles, and Parks refused to move. Later on Parks was removed from the bus and arrested for violating Alabama's segregation laws. The night of Parks arrest, civil rights activists including Martin Luther King Jr., and E.D Nixon planned a boycott of the montgomery buses to protest the policy of racial segregation of the bus system. The next day Parks was bailed out of jail by E.D Nixon and she got a job at the NAACP after being fired from her job.
Daisy Bates also played an important role in the civil rights movement mostly with her involvement in the integration of Little Rock Central High School and the use of her newspaper.
On September 4,1957 Daisy Bates, who was the president of the NAACP in her state at the time, marched with 8 of the 9 students up to Little Rock Central High School with the newspaper, and cameras to see if they would let the kids in the school. If the school refused the enrollment of the kids the news peoples would write it in their paper and they would have photo evidence as well. Daisy and her husband Lucius Christopher Bates, a journalist, published a newspaper called the Arkansas State Press. Using this newspaper they kept the African American community up to date with stories of police brutalities, violence, and other major events. Especially during the Little Rock case her newspaper Arkansas State Press became popular throughout the state of Arkansas for its help improving social circumstances of the African American
community. Along with the brave men and women who tried their best to benefit for the black community, the many organizations took a big toll in the civil rights movement of the 1950’s also. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference formation was triggered by the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Also know as “SCLC” it was formed when sixty black ministers came together to form SCLC on January, 1957 in Atlanta. Its use was to further the fight for civil rights. SCLC’s first major campaign was the Crusade for Citizenship that started in late 1957. Gaining money by donations from churches, and from private donors, the campaign’s goal was to register and educate thousands of unqualified voters in time for the elections taking place in 1958 and 1960. The crusades also wanted to provide voter education clinics around the south, and to “raise awareness among African Americans that their chances for improvement rest on their ability to vote.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also known as “NAACP” for short, was and is an African American civil rights group with goals "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.” The NAACP’s civil rights efforts highly improved black lives even today. For example the Brown v. Board of Education court case.
The civil rights movement could never have succeeded the way it did without the help of some of its very brave leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Daisy Bates.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and Minister who impacted the 1950’s movement in many ways. He was known for using non-violent tactics, the method he learned from the Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi. King believed that using these non-violent methods would help others states to witness the violence toward the black community, and to show the reason why blacks can't succeed the way they want to. For example of one …show more content…
the many non-violent methods, on December 1, 1955 Rosa parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white male violating the Montgomery City Code. King, and at the time head of the NAACP E.D Nixon planned a city wide bus boycott later called the Montgomery Bus Boycott. King, was chosen to be the leader of the boycott mostly because he seemed professional, he was new so he had few people against him, and he was young. The boycott lasted for over a year, and turned out to be a huge success for the black community. After the boycott victory, Martin Luther King Jr. and other black civil rights leaders felt the need that the black community needed an organization to help with non-violent activities, and ended up forming the Southern Christian Leadership Conference also know as the SCLC.
Rosa Parks, named“The Mother of the civil rights movement” was a very important factor in starting up the civil rights movement of the 1950’s mostly because of her braveness in the incident that occurred in 1955. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and sat in the designated “colored peoples” section that was according to Alabama's segregation laws. After a couple of stops the “white” section of the bus was all filled up and bus driver James F. Blake ordered Parks to give up her seat since there were several white men standing in the aisles, and Parks refused to move. Later on Parks was removed from the bus and arrested for violating Alabama's segregation laws. The night of Parks arrest, civil rights activists including Martin Luther King Jr., and E.D Nixon planned a boycott of the montgomery buses to protest the policy of racial segregation of the bus system. The next day Parks was bailed out of jail by E.D Nixon and she got a job at the NAACP after being fired from her job.
Daisy Bates also played an important role in the civil rights movement mostly with her involvement in the integration of Little Rock Central High School and the use of her newspaper.
On September 4,1957 Daisy Bates, who was the president of the NAACP in her state at the time, marched with 8 of the 9 students up to Little Rock Central High School with the newspaper, and cameras to see if they would let the kids in the school. If the school refused the enrollment of the kids the news peoples would write it in their paper and they would have photo evidence as well. Daisy and her husband Lucius Christopher Bates, a journalist, published a newspaper called the Arkansas State Press. Using this newspaper they kept the African American community up to date with stories of police brutalities, violence, and other major events. Especially during the Little Rock case her newspaper Arkansas State Press became popular throughout the state of Arkansas for its help improving social circumstances of the African American
community. Along with the brave men and women who tried their best to benefit for the black community, the many organizations took a big toll in the civil rights movement of the 1950’s also. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference formation was triggered by the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Also know as “SCLC” it was formed when sixty black ministers came together to form SCLC on January, 1957 in Atlanta. Its use was to further the fight for civil rights. SCLC’s first major campaign was the Crusade for Citizenship that started in late 1957. Gaining money by donations from churches, and from private donors, the campaign’s goal was to register and educate thousands of unqualified voters in time for the elections taking place in 1958 and 1960. The crusades also wanted to provide voter education clinics around the south, and to “raise awareness among African Americans that their chances for improvement rest on their ability to vote.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also known as “NAACP” for short, was and is an African American civil rights group with goals "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.” The NAACP’s civil rights efforts highly improved black lives even today. For example the Brown v. Board of Education court case.