successes that Dr. King achieves throughout his work for Civil Rights. The beginning of Dr. King’s nonviolent civil rights movements started in Montgomery‚ Alabama when Rosa Parks refused to move for a white person‚ violating city’s transportation rules. After Parks was convicted Dr. King‚ who was 26 at the time‚ was elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). “For 381 days‚ thousands of blacks walked to work‚ some as many as 12 miles a day‚ rather than continue to submit
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This respectable person was Rosa Parks‚ once she was arrested they began the bus boycott. Following that year in 1956 the mayor attempted to announce a policy called the “get though” policy and two days later Martin Luther King was arrested. By March of 1956 the bus station had lost over a million dollars because the blacks had boycotted it. In Georgia the first big campaign to desegregate was in 1961 and did not end until 1963. During this time there were over a thousand people arrested and there
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The Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s Once upon a horrible time‚ the United States was a segregated country in which blacks were considered some sort of subspecies. Although the civil war addressed segregation it didn’t enforce it. While black and white citizens were becoming a group of equals in the north‚ the story was much different in the segregated south. Black citizens in the south still faced unequal treatment‚ wages‚ and were often persecuted by everyone from store workers to
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How far has the importance of Martin Luther King’s role in the Civil Rights movement been exaggerated? In the 1950s and 60s‚ black Americans were victim to severe and brutal racist discrimination‚ particularly in the southern states‚ where segregation was “de Jure” ( by law)‚ the ‘Jim-Crow’ laws made sure that everyday facilities such as buses‚ parks and schools were segregated‚ with different services for black and white people and where black people were violently threatened to prevent them
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Martin Luther King III‚ Dexter Scott‚ and Bernice. Martin became pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery‚ Alabama. When he was only 25 years old‚ Martin received his Ph.D. Martin Luther King Jr. decided it was his turn to action in society. He didn’t want his children to live in a world where they weren’t treated fairly based on the color of their skin. In Montgomery a woman named Rosa Parks did not give her seat up for a white man on a bus. She was arrested and fined a tremendous
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What would the Civil Rights Movement be without its eminent leaders? Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Malcolm X‚ and The Black Panthers achieved many important goals that affected the Civil Rights Movement tremendously. Without them‚ this movement wouldn’t be as triumphant due to the fact it took place during the vietnam war. Theses leaders were also able to overcome the difficulty the draft proposed to blacks. The Civil Rights Movement is one of the most influential movements in American history. However
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military 1948 - Truman commissioned report ‘To Secure these Rights’ 1947 with recommendations for improved civil rights - Generally Truman helped to awaken USA’s conscience to civil rights issues • Transport - Montgomery Bus Boycott (explain why this was successful) - Browder v Gayle 1956 (court case which confirmed that segregation on Montgomey buses was illegal) Lack of progress • Limits to progress in education and continued segregation
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Gandhi’s non-violent tactics and advocated a program of civil disobedience that used these methods. These included protests in the form of boycotts‚ demonstrations‚ sit-ins and marches which includes the famous ‘Montgomery Bus boycott’‚ ‘The 1963 March on Washington’ and ‘Bloody Sunday: Selma 1965’‚ which increased the national consciousness of the denial of civil rights to African Americans. These protests were always public and in large numbers which forced confrontation with the authorities. African
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lawn of her parents’ house in her hometown ofHeiberger‚ Alabama.[13] They became the parents of four children; Yolanda King‚ Martin Luther King III‚ Dexter Scott King‚ and Bernice King.[14] King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ when he was twenty-five years old‚ in 1954.[15] King then began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University and received his
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rights movement anytime blacks made a decision about anything and what their course of action would be they always met with the ministers and lay leaders of their local churches. In doing this is how they decided to form an association known as The Montgomery Improvement Association they also chose a spokesman‚ at the time 26 year old minister Martin Luther King Jr. Two years later King and other local black ministers formed what still exist today The Southern Leadership Conference (SCLC). The goal in
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