” she said. Earlier that year in March 2‚ 1955‚ a 15-year old girl Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery‚ Alabama. Actually‚ “Colvin did not violate city bus policy by not relinquishing her seat. She was not sitting in the front seats reserved for whites‚ and there was no other place for her to sit. But despite the apparent legality of her refusal to give up her seat‚ Colvin was still convicted.
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That’s how he started big as someone in the church “community”. In March 1955‚ Claudette Colvin‚ a black fifteen-year-old pregnant schoolgirl in Montgomery‚ refused to give up her bus seat to a white man to stand up to the Jim Crow Laws which were local regulations in the south that enforced racial segregation.. King was on the committee from the Birmingham African-American community that would look for the case‚ because Colvin was pregnant and unmarried‚ President Nixon and Clifford Durr decided to wait
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Rosa Parks was born February 4th‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Rosa was homeschooled until the age of 11 by her mother and then she attended the Industrial School for Girls. In 1932 she married her husband Raymond parks and she worked various jobs in Montgomery. On December 1‚ 1955‚ Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in the colored section. She was arrested and that’s when she became known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”. Rosa Parks is an above average leader because
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became a civil rights activist early in his career. He also led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. In March 1955‚ a fifteen-year-old school girl‚ Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in compliance with the Jim Crow laws. Marint was on the committee from the Birmingham African-American community that looked into the case; because Colvin was pregnant and unmarried‚ Therefore E.D. Nixon and Clifford Durr decided to wait for a better case to pursue instead of taking her to court
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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
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used his own behavior and his own words to achieve the civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. A perfect advancement of him would be the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. In March 1955‚ a fifteen-year-old school girl in Montgomery‚ Claudette Colvin‚ refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in compliance with Jim Crow laws. After hearing of this thing‚ King soon got involved in it‚ looked into the case and began to note a protest. The Montgomery Bus Boycott urged and planned by Nixon
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challenge to the citizens‚ lawmakers‚ and politicians of the day. At the head of this movement was one Martin Luther King‚ the primary voice‚ crying in the wasteland of inequality and segregation. In March 1955‚ a fifteen-year-old school girl‚ Claudette Colvin‚ refused to give up her bus seat to a white man‚ in compliance with the laws of the time. On December 1‚ 1955‚ Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. The Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ planned by Edgar Nixon and led by Martin Luther
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Segregation in the 1930’s Segregation has always been around for many years and been a huge issue. Segregation means the "practice or policy of keeping people of different races and religions separate from each other" (Google.com). To some people‚ segregation was a good and a correct thing to do but for some it’s bad and just wrong. For example‚ Martin Luther King Jr. he was against segregation but didn’t use violence. On the other hand‚ we have Malcolm X he was also was against segregation
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Assess the role played by The Montgomery Bus Boycott in the struggle for civil rights in America 1954 - 1965 Montgomery is the state capital. It was one of the most segregated cities in the USA in the 1950s. In 1954‚ the US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka destroyed the legal basis for segregation in education. However‚ in the southern states of the USA Jim Crow Laws continued to enforce segregation and discrimination against black Americans in housing‚ transport
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to one of the most powerful positions in the growing Civil Rights Movement‚ and helped him gain the confidence of black southerners ready to involve themselves in the struggle. The Bus Boycott is a famous occurrence even to this day‚ After Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks got into incidents involving
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