Civil Rights 2
Many changes occurred during the late 1950s into the early 1960s in the goals, strategies, and support of the movement for African American civil rights. Many strides were made for racial equality in the United States. However, while changes were made, they did take a considerable amount of time to achieve. This made some leaders of the civil rights movement frustrated and caused them to divert from their original goal of integration. They instead strove for black separatism where blacks and whites would live The civil rights movement started in 1955 with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Parks, a black woman, sat in the front of a public Montgomery bus. According to the Jim Crow laws enforced in the South, the front of buses was reserved for white people. When a white person approached Rosa Parks for the seat, she refused to get up. She was arrested for violating the Jim Crow law. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. contacted Rosa Parks and asked her if she was serious about starting a civil rights movement. When she said yes, King organized a boycott on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. As a result, the bus company agreed to allow blacks to sit wherever t
to raise his or her voice because that would denote violence. The student would continue In the spring of 1961, James Farmer, head of the Congress of Racial commended him on keeping his protests non-violent and for striving for the goal of Blacks did not want to be separated from whites, they wanted to be together and equal. their own society. This was reverting back to segregation. He wanted black money to go simply say "I would like a hamburger and a coke please." The student would be sure not
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Approximate Word count = 1409
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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