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    Martin Luther King Martin Luther King was an extremely inspirational individual‚ a humanitarian‚ civil rights activist in fact. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955‚ helped CSLC in 1957‚ helped to organise the March on Washington 1963 in which he presented his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech gaining his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. King‚ born son of Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. spent most of his early life within church‚ singing amongst the choir in 1939. He attended

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    was lovong in Montgomery‚ was detained and then fined for refusal to give the sitting in the bus to the white passenger as it was required under the local law. The same year in Montgomery in buses five women and two children‚ not including black men were arrested‚ one black man was shot by the driver. After Rosa Parks’s arrest Ad Nixon heading local labor union of conductors of sleepers called a Black community for boycott of city transport in protest. Boycott of bus lines in Montgomery soon was headed

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    experiences which one of them is the Montgomery Bus Boycott event where she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on the bus. This essay will show an analysis on different interpretations of Rosa Park’s involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott using various website sources. According to this website (http://www.history.com/topics/rosa-parks) on December 21‚ 1955 is the day when the Montgomery bus boycott happens. The way it happened is when she entered the bus and sat down and Black people

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    the Montgomery bus boycott when she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person for she was tired after a long day at work. The emergence of Martin Luther King Jr. was along with the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ as the ring leader. The Boycott lasted for a total of 382 years‚ was brought together and maintained its strength through Martin Luther King Jr. and it lead to the birth of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The busses became desegregated in Montgomery yet

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    common approaches that lead readers to find out the main reason why the Montgomery‚ Alabama bus boycott took place. As an individual you learn to realize how many people actual struggled to become the true founders of this historical moment. You apprehend why several of people were eager to help sought out the social discrimination disputes against colored people and the whites. THEME: The uphill of the Montgomery Bus Boycott was well flourished by Janet Stevenson in her discussions on segregation

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    sources a judgement is clear that Martin Luther King Jr. actions were powerful and influential. King revolted against hatred‚ oppression and had the desire of true freedom for the African American society. (bit emotional here) King.... the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957‚ (narrative) serving as its first president and inspired millions of followers with his motivational speech “I have a dream”. King had been exceptionally inspired by a dream

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    The Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Papers Project Interview by Martin Agronsky for “Look Here” Oct ’957 27 27 October 1957 Montgomery‚ Ala. After Sunday services at Dexter on z 7 October‚ seventy-jive church members assembled in the auditorium to watch Agronsky‚ host of the weekly NBC television program “Look Here‚ ” interview their pastor.’ Though broadcast nationally‚ viewers i n more than thirty-jive counties of Alabama did not see the program after vandals sabotaged the transmission by wrapping

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    the racial identity models discussed in our text. I chose Rosa Louise McCauley Parks‚ a Civil Rights Activist‚ known for the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955‚ the same date of her trial for the crime of not giving up her seat on the bus for a White boy because she said‚ “I’m not moving; my feet hurt”‚ which at that time in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ segregation on public bus transportation was law‚ and Blacks had to give up their seats to Whites if there were none for them. I feel Rosa Louise (McCauley)

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    discriminated. If an African-American comes on the bus‚ they have to pay at the front‚ then get off and re-board at the back doors. When there is no more seats in the front of the bus‚ the bus driver is allowed to move the sign that divides whites and African-Americans back. Unfortunately African-Americans would have to give up their seat. At the age of 42-years-old Mrs. Parks‚ worked as an assistant tailor at a department store. Coming home the bus Mrs. Parks was riding started to get full‚ eventually

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    segregation was normal and black suppression was a way of life. She lived with relatives in Montgomery‚ where she finished high school in 1933 and continued her education at Alabama State College. She married her husband‚ Raymond Parks‚ a barber‚ in 1932. She worked as a clerk‚ an insurance salesperson‚ and a tailor ’s assistant at a department store. She was also employed as a seamstress by white residents of Montgomery who were supporters of black Americans ’ struggle for freedom and equal rights. Parks

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