to do anything regardless of our looks. But back around the first half of the 20th century‚ there was no way you could do stuff whites did if you were a black person. The many African Americans tried to fight for equality. This fight is known as The Civil Rights Movement. There were many important events in the movement‚ and people too. The Civil Rights Movement became very important in American history. SEGREGATION The separation of blacks and whites‚ known as segregation‚ was started by some
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Civil Rights Movement Many leaders in African American communities and beyond rose to great standards during the Civil Rights era‚ including Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ Malcolm X‚ Andrew Goodman and others. They risked their own lives in the controversy of freedom and equality. Malcolm X created the “Black Power” philosophy‚ Goodman was an amazing activist‚ and MLK assisted in many protests. They all greatly encouraged and impacted the acts to defeat inequality. A wise woman once said‚” You must
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Rosa Parks A very inspirational civil rights activist once said‚ “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free ... so other people would be also free.” This civil rights activist is sometimes recognized as the "Mother of the U.S. civil rights movement" (Encyclopædia Britannica) . Her name was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is the most influential women in the last century. Parks was a seamstress‚ secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored
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On December 1‚ 1955 Rosa Parks‚ active NAACP member‚ headed home from work on a bus like any other day. In Montgomery‚ the first 10 seats on city bus were strictly reserved for white people. Blacks were allowed to sit in those first few seats as long as a white person was not in the need of it‚ but if a black person was sitting there it was their job to get up to accommodate that white person. Rosa Parks however‚ refused to move even after being threatened to have the police summoned to arrest her
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THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Historically‚ the Civil Rights Movement was a time during the 1950’s and 60’s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights. Looking back on all the events‚ and dynamic figures it produced‚ this description is very vague. In order to fully understand the Civil Rights Movement‚ you have to go back to its origin. Most people believe that Rosa Parks began the whole civil rights movement. She did in fact propel the Civil Rights Movement to unprecedented heights but
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First of all‚ King was important to history because he helped give blacks and whites equal rights for all. His rally was one of the biggest rallies of all time—and some people were upset and thought it was too quick—but the larger audience was very excited about the changes. Furthermore‚ he helped with the bus boycott that Rosa Parks had started and only used peaceful protesting actions. Martin protested in sit-ins and got arrested a lot of times because of it BUT‚ he still protested peacefully.
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was a civil rights activist. She was born February 4‚ 1913. She was raised in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Rosa Parks moved in 1957 to Detroit‚ Michigan. Rosa refused to give up her seat on a greyhound bus. Rosa’s action lead to the bus boycott. Rosa Parks died on October 24‚ 2005. Rosa actions led to the bus boycott. Rosa was symbol of the power of nonviolent protests. Rosa Parks is called the mother of civil rights
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Civil rights activists Rosa Parks was born‚ Rosa McCauley on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her maternal grandparents‚ Rose and Sylvester Edwards‚ were former slaves. Her mother‚ Leona Edwards‚ was a teacher‚ and her father‚ James McCauley‚ was a carpenter‚ bricklayer‚ and stone man. Rosa was the first of two children. Rosa’s parents had different reasons for wanting to live in Tuskegee. Rosa’s mother knew Tuskegee was the best place in Alabama for African Americans to get an education
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complete timeline of the events which lead up to the boycott‚ were part of the boycott‚ and followed the boycott: 1954: May 21 - Professor Jo Ann Robinson writes a warning to the mayor of Montgomery of the possibility of a bus boycott. September 1 - Martin Luther King Jr. becomes the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. 1955: March 2 - Claudette Colvin‚ a fifteen year old African American‚ is arrested for violating the bus segregation laws. October 21 -
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schoolhouse‚ while the city of Pine Level provided bus transportation as well as a new school building for white students.Rosa left school to attend to both her sick grandmother and mother back in Pine Level. She never returned to her studies; instead‚ she got a job at a shirt factory in Montgomery.Rosa earned her high school degree in 1933. She soon became actively involved in civil rights issues
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