Reaction To The Civil Rights Movement

Action and Reaction. The civil rights movement was a national effort made by black people and their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights. It ended with Martin Luther King Jr., the symbol of the civil rights movement, being assassinated in 1968. Reaction The civil rights most notable changes in the end was with desegregation throughout the country and black Americans having the chance at better careers, homes, and an overall good life. If you were paying attention or have a brain you would probably be asking why did she leave out the Action that started the Civils Rights Movement, well that’s what this essay is about. What was the Action that created a Reaction as big as the Civil rights, who created
Who could have possibly been strong and brave enough to start a movement as profound as the civil rights movement? The incredibly strong and brave person was a black women and civil rights activist known as Rosa parks. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama. When she was 11 she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United States. The school taught a young Rosa about self-worth and self-respect. She attended Alabama State Teachers College and after she graduated the young Rosa settled in Montgomery, with her husband, Raymond Parks. She and her husband joined the NAACP and worked quietly and diligently for many years to improve the lot of African-Americans in the harsh segregated south. A brave person who doesn’t have muscles to show her strength but the will to lift her head up high and be proud of who she is. Now you know and understand who started the civil rights movement which led to African Americans having equal rights, but what did she do to start the civil rights movement. What was her
The local black community organized a bus boycott. The bus boycot started the day Rosa Parks was found guilty of breaking the segregation laws. The Montgomery Improvement Association was created to protest the city busses by not having any black Americans riding the busses. The leader of the bus boycott was a young Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, whom she inspired to make bigger strides towards equality. The boycott went on for 382 days and ended when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Her one small, simple, and brave action had created the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as it came to be known, which was a huge for the black community by giving them hope that equality can be reached. “Throughout the civil rights movement Parks became a nationally recognized symbol of dignity and strength in the struggle to end entrenched racial