An example was the Selma Campaign in 1965‚ which became a significant campaign. Marches from Selma to Montgomery‚ which had been banned by the Federal Court‚ was led by Martin Luther King. On one march the marchers were met by State Troops and so King led them in prayer and marched them back to Selma. This cost the support of many King’s younger supporters‚ but the Selma Campaign was still a success. This led to the introduction of the Voters’
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divinity degree there‚ attended graduate school at Boston University‚ where he earned a Ph.D. in theology in 1955. At Boston University‚ he met Coretta Scott; they were married in 1953. King’s rise to national and international prominence began in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ in 1955. In that year‚ Rosa Parks‚ an African American woman‚ was arrested for refusing to obey a city ordinance that required African Americans to sit or stand at the back of municipal buses. The African American citizens of the city
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conclude if he was as significant as he is usually credited. King’s contributions to the movement between 1956- 61 were non-existent‚ it seemed as though he couldn’t think of any new tactics‚ but other contributions were made during this time. The Montgomery Bus Boycotts (1955-56) were sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks (part of the NAACP since 1943)‚ on 1 December 1955 where she refused to give up her seat for a white man. This started a 13 month mass boycott and ending with the Supreme Court ruling
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isolation. He profited from both a mainstream and religious training‚ accepting a PhD in efficient philosophy from Boston University in 1955. Soon after he started his profession as a minister in 1954 at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ the Montgomery social liberties battle push King into the epicenter of the social equality development. As a civil rights leader‚ Martin Luther King Jr was driven for‚ and provided his life to finish racial segregation and prejudice in the United States
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was involved in was the montgomery bus boycott. According to Khadijah Jackson article “ King headed the Montgomery Improvement Association and lead one of the most mass civil rights protest and it was the first action taken to desegregate the Montgomery public bus system.”Dr. King felt that something needed to be done‚ so he followed the footstep of Mahatma Gandhi. Dr. King led protests
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resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination. King participated in and led marches for the right to vote‚ desegregation‚ labor rights‚ and other civil rights. He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became
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segregation and discrimination by using a number of methods that included protests‚ marches‚ boycotts‚ and refusing segregation laws. Most historians agree that the civil rights movement began with either the Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 or the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and ended with the Voting Rights Act of 1965; however‚ there is a lot of debate on when it began and ended. There were civil rights issues well into the 1980s. The main tool of discrimination against blacks in the United
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Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King was assassinated on April 4‚ 1968 and is often referenced by his powerful speech from 1963‚ “I Have a Dream”. Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen as the leader and official spokesman of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which took place after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. This boycott‚ which lasted for 381 days‚ resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that segregated seating on public buses was unconstitutional in November
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along with the help of the Birmingham African-American community‚ boycotted Montgomery buses for 385 days until a US district court ruling ended racial segregation on montgomery public buses. Later in 1963‚ King and others organized a march on Washington for jobs and freedom for blacks. This was known as The Great March on Washington‚ and it was where King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The Selma to Montgomery marches took place
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Non-discriminatory federal housing. 1963 Kennedy’s Civil Rights bill. Birmingham riots. March on Washington. 1964-8 Annual riots in black ghettos. 1964 Civil Rights Act pushed through by LBJ. Kennedy Democrat 1961-63 1965 Selma voter registration crisis: Selma to Montgomery march. Voting Rights Act. Watts (black Los Angeles ghetto) riots. Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam and is killed by Nation of Islam gunmen. 1966 Stokely Carmichael calls for ‘black power’ on the Meredith March. (Mississippi)
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