PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
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refused to give up his seat on a bus to a white man
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challenged the authority of the Supreme Court
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was elected as the first black congressman from the South
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Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister who endorsed nonviolent civil disobedience, emerged as leader of the Boycott. Following a November 1956 ruling by the Supreme Court that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, the bus boycott ended successfully.
Detailed explanation-2: -King emerged as a leader of the burgeoning civil rights movement in 1957 when he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Detailed explanation-3: -Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., then a Montgomery minister, African Americans organized a peaceful boycott of the city’s public buses in December 1955 after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man; a year later segregation on buses was prohibited by court order.
Detailed explanation-4: -Organizing the Boycott E.D. Nixon, a local labor leader, organized a December 4 meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where local black leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)to spearhead a boycott and negotiate with the bus company.