PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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Rosa Parks
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Malcolm X
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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James Meredith
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Thurgood Marshall
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was in December 1955, when Rosa Parks was travelling in a bus in Alabama. A white man asked her to get up from her seat, but she refused. She ended up getting arrested for refusing to get up from her seat. This act of defiance was a significant moment in the American Civil Rights Movement.
Detailed explanation-2: -Not long after that December day in 1955, Rosa Parks told a radio interviewer that she had acted because the “time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed, I suppose. I had decided that I would have to know, once and for all, what rights I had as a human being, and a citizen.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement, made the decision to remain in her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus because she didn’t believe she should have to move because of her race, even though that was the law.