America's Role In The Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights movement was a very popular movement to give African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. (Davis, J. E, 2014). Some key figures include but are not limited to: Martin Luther King Jr. King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Mary Mcleod Bethune, and A. Philip Randolph. On December 1, 1955, the modern civil rights movement began when Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. (Davis, J. E, 2014). Before that though Africans have been suffering all over the nation years before. Florida in particular played an integral role in the long, nationwide struggle for racial equality. Some of the events that took place, made African americans more and more eager to fight for their rights. One event took place on January 1, 1923 when \a massacre was carried out in the small, predominantly black town of Rosewood in Central Florida. The massacre was instigated by the rumor that a white woman, Fanny Taylor, had been sexually …show more content…
Mary McLeod Bethune opened the Daytona Literacy and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls and later for both boys and girls. (Civil Rights Movement in Florida, 2002). Harry Moore was an activist far ahead of his time when it came to matters of community organizing, such as voter education and registration; addressing inequality among Florida black and white teachers’ pay during the ’40s and ’50s; and filing lawsuits and writing letters to Florida elected officials to challenge police brutality. (Randolph Bracy Jr, 2018, January 14). A. Philip Randolph founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which by 1937 would become the first official African-American labor union and after becoming involved in additional civil rights work, he was a principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. (cite