PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Rosa Parks
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Sojourner Truth
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Malcolm X
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-2: –His bus company was reliant on African-American patrons. This helped protesters win the Montgomery bus boycott.-The bus company finally had to give in because it could no longer rely solely on white passengers. The demonstrators were also helped by their deep sense of unity and determination.
Detailed explanation-3: -Montgomery bus boycott, mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, by civil rights activists and their supporters that led to a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rosa Parks, the 42 year old secretary of the Montgomery, Alabama NAACP, provided the inspiration for the Montgomery Bus Boycott with her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to accommodate white passengers.