The Civil Rights Movement took place took place over the course of the 1950s and 1960s in the South. It was during that period of time that groups such as the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and others were founded. Each respective group participated in the Civil Rights Movement with different visions of approach in their fight to obtain Constitutional equality. Though the groups, and the individuals within them, were all fighting with the same vision of equality, oftentimes their visions of equality differed, whether it meant desegregation of the right to vote. Disagreements such as those occasionally led to conflicts among the groups. Despite their differing perceptions of freedom, and their different approach to obtain that freedom, protesting was most
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King was not the initiating figure of the Civil Rights Movement as many people think, it was at the meeting in his church on December 5, 1955 that he was elected into the presidency of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) (49-50) and would soon after start to become the public face of the Movement. Contrary to popular belief, “Dr. King was not a confirmed believer in nonviolence” in the beginning stages of the boycott (53). Nonviolence would later become one of the most important aspects on behalf of protestors during the Civil Rights Movement. During the span of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, African Americans stopped riding city buses. Instead, volunteers, especially college students who were home from school on their winter break, participated in picking up boycotters and delivering them to their destinations (58-61). In was in part due to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), consisting of several “leaders of various protest movements around the South (67) was organized in Atlanta. In 1957, Dr. King was elected President of the SCLC. According to Joseph E Lowrey, what made the SCLC so significant was that “it emphasized in the social struggle the moral aspects”
King was not the initiating figure of the Civil Rights Movement as many people think, it was at the meeting in his church on December 5, 1955 that he was elected into the presidency of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) (49-50) and would soon after start to become the public face of the Movement. Contrary to popular belief, “Dr. King was not a confirmed believer in nonviolence” in the beginning stages of the boycott (53). Nonviolence would later become one of the most important aspects on behalf of protestors during the Civil Rights Movement. During the span of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, African Americans stopped riding city buses. Instead, volunteers, especially college students who were home from school on their winter break, participated in picking up boycotters and delivering them to their destinations (58-61). In was in part due to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), consisting of several “leaders of various protest movements around the South (67) was organized in Atlanta. In 1957, Dr. King was elected President of the SCLC. According to Joseph E Lowrey, what made the SCLC so significant was that “it emphasized in the social struggle the moral aspects”