Claudette Colvin

This research paper studies the life and the impact of Martin Luther King Jr. Dr King who led the African-American Civil Rights Movement and who was also a Baptist minister and the leader of Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His work in bringing racial inequality to an end culminated in the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by the 88th United States Congress. The first part of the paper discusses the early life and biography of Dr King. He was an African-American who was born in…

Many do not know that 15-year old Claudette Colvin was the first African American who refused to give up her seat to a group of Caucasian people. Being too young and too dark-skinned she was never recognized as the leader who started the Civil Rights Movement. After her arrest, she became pregnant by a much older and married man, and civil rights leaders thought that it would not help but hamper the African American community in their rise for equality. Nine months later, Rosa Parks, a 42- year…

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights movement that took place in the city of Montgomery, Alabama. During this time, segregation was a big thing in the South. The African Americans have been fighting for their rights for so long. They were demanding political and racial equality. The African Americans were being getting tired of the segregation on the buses so they decided to boycott the buses. They would walk, ride in taxis’, carpool, and any other way they could get to where they…