PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Thurgood Marshall
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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John F. Kennedy
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Rosa Parks
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery.
Detailed explanation-2: -27, 1955: Rosa Parks Attends Meeting About Emmett Till. Rosa Parks attended a mass meeting about Emmett Till days before her refusal to give up her seat on the bus.
Detailed explanation-3: -Today marks the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ decision to sit down for her rights on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, putting the effort to end segregation on a fast track. Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger.
Detailed explanation-4: -The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.