PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Malcolm X
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W.E.B. Dubois
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Booker T. Washington
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Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and ‘60s. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement. He organized a number of peaceful protests as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including the March on Washington in 1963.
Detailed explanation-2: -King sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest.
Detailed explanation-3: -No figure is more closely identified with the mid-20th century struggle for civil rights than Martin Luther King, Jr. His adoption of nonviolent resistance to achieve equal rights for Black Americans earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Detailed explanation-4: -In his first major civil rights action, Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.