civil rights movement
The American Civil Rights Movement was a mass population movement that fought for the equal access, opportunities for basic privileges and rights for a U.S. citizenship.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest that started on the 5th of December (4 days after Rosa Parks arrest) 1955, and ended on the 20th of December 1956. It lasted 13 month and 381 days. After Rosa Parks arrest a huge crowd gathered to hear what Martin Luther King had to say. Lots of people wanted things to change, but some people just shrugged their shoulders and said there was nothing they could do. Martin Luther King believed they could do something.
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African-American Civil Rights Activist. She is very well known for starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on the bus. She was then arrested and then charged $14 (which today is around $123). |
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was an African American activist who led the American civil rights movement. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia; so he experienced discrimination and racism first hand. King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950’s and 60’s. King used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance (protests, grassroots organizing and civil disobedience) to achieve seemingly impossible goals.
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NElson MandelA
Nelson Mandela was a South African Politician and philanthropist, who then became to be the South African president in 1994 to 1999.
On the 11th of June 1964 Mandela and 7 others were convicted, and sentenced to life in jail. |
Mandela And King
Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr never met; but they both fought the same cause at the same time in two different countries. Nelson Mandela was very inspired by King, that he quoted from King’s famous “I Have A Dream speech .
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Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian Independence movement. Gandhi’s spiritual influences and ideas gave inspiration to people and political leaders all over the world.
Two of the people that were majorly influenced by Gandhi was Martin Luther king Jr and Nelson Mandela. |