PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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Her work with Martin Luther King organizing a march in Birmingham, Alabama
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Her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Her work in school desegregation.
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Her work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Freedom Summer.
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Detailed explanation-1: -International Civil Rights: Walk of Fame-Rosa Parks. Called “the mother of the civil rights movement, ” Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
Detailed explanation-2: -Contents. Rosa Parks (1913-2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Detailed explanation-3: -On April 30, 1963, the Bristol Bus Boycott began. Inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a group of West Indians in Bristol, England, organized a boycott of the Bristol Omnibus Company for its refusal to employ Black drivers for its buses.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. 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.