segregation, and you would get arrested if you didn’t let a white person sit down on a crowded bus while you stood. Segregation happened at lunch counters, in schools—almost everywhere down south... Claudette Colvin was important because she stood up for what she knew was right, and she motivated others. Who was Claudette? She was a fifteen-year-old black girl. She went to Booker T. Washington High in Montgomery, Alabama. Her family was very poor, and her parents tried not to be noticed by white
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walking into the realm of the representational and symbolic-and sometimes, into history”(217). When I read what Solnit had to say about walking in the form of a speech, I thought that this is exactly what King wanted to do. Especially with the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington. King wanted to make a powerful stand, in the form of movement, and with the power of the number of
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Key Terms: Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas: 1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed. Montgomery bus boycott: Protest in 1955-1956 by African American against racial segregation in the bus system on Montgomery, Alabama. Integration: Process of bringing people of different races together. Setting the Scene: * In August 1945, Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, called a young man named Jackie Robinson into his
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treatment even towards the white person defending the colored person. Towards the 1960s is when people had finally had enough and started to take action. Realizing that things were going on that needed to be ended started things such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which helped lead to the Civil Rights
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husband set the keynote and the tempo of the Movement he was to lead, from Montgomery onward” (Page 132). The author’s description of the Montgomery boycott gave partial credit to, two individuals and
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Education court case, the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 demonstrates America’s core value of equality. And still more events, like World War II, the Miranda v. Arizona court case, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott demonstrates
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How would you feel if you were told that you couldn’t sit in the front of a bus or that you couldn’t dine in certain restaurants because of the color of your skin? The Civil Rights Movement refers to the political, social and economical struggle of African Americans to gain full citizenship and racial equality. The movement held many nonviolent protest against racial segregation and discrimination in America especially in the South during the 1950s and 60s. Although African Americans began to fight
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long day of work at a Montgomery department store where she was a seamstress, Rosa was waiting on the bus. December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus for home. She took a seat in the first of several rows designated for "colored" passengers. Though the city's bus ordinance did give drivers the authority to assign seats, it didn't specifically give them the authority to demand a passenger to give up a seat to anyone (regardless of color). However, Montgomery bus drivers had adopted
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someone, I would meet Martin Luther King Jr. I would go and shake his hand and ask him how he was so successful in his accomplishments. Martin Luther King Jr. was the man who ended segregation and most racism. He was also the leader to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the African-American Civil-Rights movement. I would go back because I would want to know how he was successful in his accomplishment. I would also go back because he would be able to tell us how he was a great leader. And last I would
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