equality. The role of the media played a tremendous impact on The Civil Rights Movement by showing Americans the violence of segregation on television. The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches in which six hundred civil rights marchers planned to march from Selma to Montgomery. During this march‚ the state troopers intercepted the march by the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The state troopers shot tear gas into the crowd and beat the protesters with clubs after ordering them to turn around. This
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an afrikan American woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man . here is when the Montgomery bus boycott takes place ‚ it was planned by Nixon and led by King ‚ it lasted 385 days and the situation became so tense that King’s house was bombed and he was arrested .This boycott conludes with a United States District Court ending with racial segregation on Montgomery public buses . In 1957 ‚ King and others activits create SCLC ( Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
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guaranteeing civil rights for all. King first became well known when he presented a guest lecture for the NAACP and E.D. Nixon heard his lecture. Nixon was so impressed with King’s speaking abilities‚ that he decided to help King become the head of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). As president of the MIA‚ King drove some of the black community to work to provide transportation for other boycotters. However‚ he was
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The 1960s and 1970s were characterized by turmoil. During this era‚ civil rights were the major issue in the United States of America‚ and George Corley Wallace Jr. had a great role. Black people were looking for Civil Rights‚ and they wanted to get rid of segregation from the United States of America. However‚ this ideas were opposed by George Wallace. George C. Wallace was born on August 25‚ 1919‚ in Clio‚ Alabama. His father was a farmer and his mother was an orphan; he did not grow up in a wealthy
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SCLC March on Washington and the Selma Movement. Body Paragraph 1: King gave the other SCLC members hope through marches and street protest. “In Martin Luther’s role as SCLC’s president‚ he traveled across the country and around the world‚ giving the lectures on nonviolent protest and civil rights as well as meeting with religious figures‚ and activist and political leaders‚”(History.Com). He shows how things can be solved without violence even though the situation is bad. Even
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paper so people knew where they lived” showing that they had no power‚ rights or freedom (Selma). Not only that but‚ having their address printed so that they could possibly get harassed by the whites was something that was unappealing for the African Americans. Many did not want to even try to register because they feared what would happen to
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS: 1954-1968 “Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off‚ and then being condemned for being a cripple.1” These were the words of Martin Luther King Jr.. For nearly 80 years after being freed from slavery‚ African-Americans
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eventually has four children. In 1954 King becomes the minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery‚ AL. King received his Ph. D in systematic theology from Boston University. At age twenty-six Martin Luther King‚ Jr. lead a boycott of segregated Montgomery buses and gains a reputation. In 1956 his house is bombed and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling prompts the desegregation of Montgomery buses. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. helped to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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Civil Rights is a movement that promoted equal rights and treatment of African Americans. Lincoln freed them during the civil war. Just because there were freed‚ granted them equal rights. The sought out equal rights towards the end of the 19th century during the progressive era and their attempts failed. After WWII their efforts were renewed and the movement gained attention again. The African American Leaders 1890-1920s and 1950s-1960s both used nonviolent ways of approaching their goals; however
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On June 5‚ 1956‚ a Montgomery federal court ruled that any law requiring racially segregated seating on buses violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But on December 20‚ 1956. Montgomery’s buses were integrated on December 21‚ 1956‚ and the boycott ended. The bus boycott lasted 381 days‚ Montgomery maintained segregated bus stops. I travel around the world giving speeches on nonviolent protests. But on August 28th‚ 1963‚ over 250‚000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs
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