Civil rights movement
Imagine that you are in Alabama, it is a hot afternoon and you are sweating profusely. You go to board a train to go visit some relatives. You can imagine yourself feeling the cool air rush around you as you sit in the luxurious train car: But wait, because certain laws call for separate cars for passengers of different races you must board the rear train cars that are cramped, filled with sounds of crying babies, and the temperature in the train car seems to be higher than the temperature is outside. It does not sound so 'cozy' does it? That scenario happened many times a day for blacks during the fifties and sixties. Blacks everywhere got fed up with being treated as if they were inferior and slaves, and banded together to form a movement. Not just any kind of movement, but a movement that would see victories as well as violence and death. That movement was the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement had a major goal, and that goal was to end discrimination based on race, creed, color, and gender, and to put an end to segregation. Its' supporters aimed for equality of all people and for the integration of society. The previously mentioned goals were achieved by many different means. The movement had it
Wexler, Sanford. The Civil Rights Movement. New York: Martin Luther King Jr. was raised in a middle-class family in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up with strong values and received a good education. At age 15, Martin Luther King Jr. attended Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was named class valedictorian. At age 18 he was ordained as a Baptist minister. In 1955 he was named president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the MIA was in charge of the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1957 King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The SCLC was an organization to challenge racial segregation. King organized peaceful demonstrations and was thrown in jail. In 1964 he received the Nobel Prize for peace. (Hampton 107).
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