poverty and hunger while the upper class Indians and British led a separate life. Gandhi saw the need for India to gain its independence from Britain in order for all the horrors of the lower class to stop (Haskins 32). Gandhi performed strikes, boycotts and fasts against the British government and he did it in a nonviolent way. King would use Gandhi’s nonviolent tactics in much of his involvement with the civil rights movements. He called for nonviolence not only because of his dedication to the
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time that brought about a tremendous change across the world, and making life as we know it today, a walk in the park. MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT Montgomery Alabama, 1955 and 1956 was an extremely volatile time for African-Americans and Whites, but the events of that year made history and changed the way of life for every Montgomery resident. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a peaceful protest that lasted one year. Its main goal was to put an end to racially segregated seating on buses, but
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sitting in the front of the bus, and blacks sitting closest to the front having to give up their seats to whites. African Americans were punished if they did not abide by the transport segregation policies. They were fined and arrested. Martin Luther King JR helped organize a protest against bus segregation after Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for not giving up her seat to a white man. This protest involved a bus boycott which involved African Americans not ride any bus unless it was integrated
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over the world. This movement required several courageous leaders and many life changing events occurred in order for America to become the integrated nation that it is today. Due to the events of Martin Lurther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott all were effects of the Civil Right Act of 1964. Martin Lurther King Jr. is one of the most histroical leaders of the 1900's and still till this day his words and actions still influence people. Dr. King is widely regarded as America's pre-eminent
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The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott was a success in bringing equality among the racial segregation within buses. When the boycotted started, it was led by Martin Luther King Jr., who insisted their campaign would be a nonviolent approach. According to Document 2, King didn’t care whether he was arrested, jailed, and breaking the black discriminating laws or not. Instead he wanted his followers to be nonviolent in their protest and for his point to be made. He knew that if they acted aggressively, then
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until later when married Raymond Parks that she continued her education and earned her high school degree. After wards, she became active in civil right issues and she joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.
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1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks rose up against the injustice being displayed. Through her voice and actions she gave evidence to bravery and strength for all the years of persecution that engulfed her and her people. And in doing so, she helped cultivate America as we see it today. On February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Louise Parks was born. She was of African-American, Cherokee-Creek, and Scots-Irish ancestry. At age eleven, she attended the school of Montgomery Industrial
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many people throughout the United States because he led peaceful protests and he never gave up on what he wanted to accomplish. In December 1,1955 to December 20,1956 peaceful African Americans from Montgomery, Alabama boycotted the Montgomery bus system due to segregation ("Montgomery Bus Boycott."
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later to be arrested and it started the bus boycott. And for that act it became known as “African American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called “ The first lady of the civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement.” Rosa and Martin luther later began the nonviolent movement. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks both began the nonviolent movements, one of those movements was the bus boycott, it was called the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This was when “Africans Americans refused
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doctorate. In Boston he met Coretta Scott. They married in 1953 and settled in Montgomery, Alabama, where King had been appointed pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Not long after King arrived in Montgomery, he was asked to lead a black boycott of the city buses. The black people of Montgomery had decided that they would not ride in segregated buses. They appealed to the courts for support of their efforts. The boycott, which lasted 381 days, ended in victory in 1956, when the U.S. Supreme
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