The Civil Rights movement was a huge shift in American history. It allowed for colored americans to express their beliefs within protest and commitment. African-Americans were being treated in an appalling way, which lead to the revolutionary protests and chaos surrounding the racist white folk and the colored . This time period was being surfaced as a hardship so leaders began to arise. One bold leader that prospered in front of others was Martin Luther King Jr. He began his first protest with the boycott against buses which was later named the Montgomery bus boycott. He was so revolutionary with his peaceful protest he is remembered now as a great american leader and was built an artifact in Washington D.C. that has a strong symbolic presence
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Being the son of a pastor, King was exposed to great spokesmanship and leader traits. This continued with him as he grew up being segregated as a colored folk. Even with a highly regarded middle class family that was praised in the black community Martin still was going through the hatred of segregation(Abernathy 2). “ In 1948 King entered the Crozer Theological seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where for the next three years he studied theology, philosophy, ethics, the Social Gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch, and the religious and social views of Reinhold Niebuhr”(Abernathy 2). King began to learn more about leadership and looked into the peaceful protest of Mohandas Gandhi. This is where he learned his peaceful protest that he later used against the racial discrimination that was spread around the south. A few years after graduating college, news broke of a women named Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white man. This small arrest began the revolution of Martin Luther King Jr. The black community was outraged by the incident and began to call upon a strong leader that could engage against racism. King was named the …show more content…
“The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest by African-American citizens in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, Against segregation policies on the city's public buses”(Lehman 1). In 1955 a young woman name Rosa Parks sat on a city bus and refused to give up her seat to a white man, she was arrested and jailed for violating the state segregation laws. What Parks did not know that this bold act would have a lasting effect on American history. After news broke out the African-American community began to form packs of protest against the public buses. They would refuse to ride the bus no matter what cost. Teh colored would carpool, Ride bikes, Walk, etc. to any destination needed as long as it protested against the state segregation laws. Bus companies began to lose money and go bankrupt, since the main source of income was coming from the Black community. The protest lasted a long 11 months, but in 1956 the supreme court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional.This ruling changed history forever and was a step towards complete execution of segregation. Know when African-Americans sit on buses it is and equal cause and they may sit wherever they
Being the son of a pastor, King was exposed to great spokesmanship and leader traits. This continued with him as he grew up being segregated as a colored folk. Even with a highly regarded middle class family that was praised in the black community Martin still was going through the hatred of segregation(Abernathy 2). “ In 1948 King entered the Crozer Theological seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where for the next three years he studied theology, philosophy, ethics, the Social Gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch, and the religious and social views of Reinhold Niebuhr”(Abernathy 2). King began to learn more about leadership and looked into the peaceful protest of Mohandas Gandhi. This is where he learned his peaceful protest that he later used against the racial discrimination that was spread around the south. A few years after graduating college, news broke of a women named Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white man. This small arrest began the revolution of Martin Luther King Jr. The black community was outraged by the incident and began to call upon a strong leader that could engage against racism. King was named the …show more content…
“The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest by African-American citizens in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, Against segregation policies on the city's public buses”(Lehman 1). In 1955 a young woman name Rosa Parks sat on a city bus and refused to give up her seat to a white man, she was arrested and jailed for violating the state segregation laws. What Parks did not know that this bold act would have a lasting effect on American history. After news broke out the African-American community began to form packs of protest against the public buses. They would refuse to ride the bus no matter what cost. Teh colored would carpool, Ride bikes, Walk, etc. to any destination needed as long as it protested against the state segregation laws. Bus companies began to lose money and go bankrupt, since the main source of income was coming from the Black community. The protest lasted a long 11 months, but in 1956 the supreme court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional.This ruling changed history forever and was a step towards complete execution of segregation. Know when African-Americans sit on buses it is and equal cause and they may sit wherever they