Have you ever wondered who made the greatest impact on the civil rights movement? Well, I believe that Rosa Parks and Thurgood Marshall made the greatest impact on the civil rights movement. Because of Rosa Parks, buses are not segregated. Thurgood Marshall helped fully desegregate public schools in the South in the court case Brown vs Board of Education.
Did you know that Rosa Parks actions helped inspire MLK Jr. to help the civil rights movement? Well, she also did many other substantial things.On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on the bus to a white man. On that day, she was sitting in the first coloured row when the bus driver said that the people in the first coloured section needed to give up their seats so that …show more content…
This brought more attention to the unfair bus conditions. People would not stand for this and they decided to boycott the buses for a day. This was big because more than half of the people on the bus were coloured, so the bus went from stop to stop empty. They then decided to extend the boycott until they got what they wanted. The boycott lasted 381 days. Also, Rosa Parks actions inspired people to act upon the movement. An example was MLK Jr. His first big movement that brought him into the ranks of the civil rights movement was organising the Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested. After this, he didn’t stop and started to become a prominent Civil Rights activist. She also inspired Johnnie Carr, who was a founding member of the MIA. The MIA also helped organise the Montgomery bus boycott. Johnnie Carr also started the movement to desegregate schools in Montgomery with the court case Carr vs Montgomery BOE. Lastly, even though many people have done …show more content…
Well, he did many other influential things, including winning the case “Brown v. Board of Education,” in which the Supreme Court struck down the “separate but equal” policy that had been used to justify racial segregation in public schools. Without him, we wouldn’t have integrated schools, and that would lead to the next generation having even more racial discrimination. Also, Marshall was appointed to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. With his newfound higher power, he turned the tides in the movement, championing free speech and civil liberties, opposing the death penalty, and most importantly, attacking discrimination more than anything. He was appointed during an ideological change in the supreme court, and since he was against discrimination, he further strengthened the effort in the court to stop discrimination. Lastly, in Smith v. Allwright (1944), Thurgood Marshall, as chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, played a pivotal role in challenging the discriminatory "white primary" system in Texas. This system barred African Americans from participating in Democratic Party primaries, effectively disenfranchising them in the state's political process. Marshall argued before the Supreme Court that the white primary violated the Fifteenth Amendment's prohibition against racial discrimination in voting. The Court's unanimous decision in favour
Did you know that Rosa Parks actions helped inspire MLK Jr. to help the civil rights movement? Well, she also did many other substantial things.On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on the bus to a white man. On that day, she was sitting in the first coloured row when the bus driver said that the people in the first coloured section needed to give up their seats so that …show more content…
This brought more attention to the unfair bus conditions. People would not stand for this and they decided to boycott the buses for a day. This was big because more than half of the people on the bus were coloured, so the bus went from stop to stop empty. They then decided to extend the boycott until they got what they wanted. The boycott lasted 381 days. Also, Rosa Parks actions inspired people to act upon the movement. An example was MLK Jr. His first big movement that brought him into the ranks of the civil rights movement was organising the Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested. After this, he didn’t stop and started to become a prominent Civil Rights activist. She also inspired Johnnie Carr, who was a founding member of the MIA. The MIA also helped organise the Montgomery bus boycott. Johnnie Carr also started the movement to desegregate schools in Montgomery with the court case Carr vs Montgomery BOE. Lastly, even though many people have done …show more content…
Well, he did many other influential things, including winning the case “Brown v. Board of Education,” in which the Supreme Court struck down the “separate but equal” policy that had been used to justify racial segregation in public schools. Without him, we wouldn’t have integrated schools, and that would lead to the next generation having even more racial discrimination. Also, Marshall was appointed to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. With his newfound higher power, he turned the tides in the movement, championing free speech and civil liberties, opposing the death penalty, and most importantly, attacking discrimination more than anything. He was appointed during an ideological change in the supreme court, and since he was against discrimination, he further strengthened the effort in the court to stop discrimination. Lastly, in Smith v. Allwright (1944), Thurgood Marshall, as chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, played a pivotal role in challenging the discriminatory "white primary" system in Texas. This system barred African Americans from participating in Democratic Party primaries, effectively disenfranchising them in the state's political process. Marshall argued before the Supreme Court that the white primary violated the Fifteenth Amendment's prohibition against racial discrimination in voting. The Court's unanimous decision in favour