The US civil rights movement, lead by Martin Luthor King, was the black Americans attempt at achieving equality, with a method promoted by MLK, called “non-violent protest”. The blacks tried a range of different things, such as court cases, sit-ins, boycotts, marches, rallies, strikes, petitions, and many more. A woman named Rosa Parks, in a way, sparked the entire movement, by refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person. She was eventually kicked off the bus, but the result of this ignited the ‘Montgomery Bus Boycott’, where, for an entire year, blacks didn’t take any form of public transport, forcing the white people to remove segregation from the buses. …show more content…
People like Malcolm X, promoted self-defence, in which he stated - “be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery”- Malcolm X
He had no problem with MLK’s methods, but he believed that black people shouldn’t let themselves be abused by anyone, because no man is lesser than