Elizabeth Montgomery

influencing thoughts on race relations. MLK had an enormous importance on today’s society. Before he took action, blacks and whites had different sections on busses, different water fountains, different schools, even different restaurants. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was made because an African American girl would…

For instance, prosecution of blacks for not sitting in the back of the bus making room for whites, they were tired of society telling them what to do. So they took matters into their hands, they started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After 381 days of boycotts and protesting, they permanently integrated the bus systems. It has not gone so smoothly for them before the boycotts and after the success of gaining the attention of the government. But, they knew, if…

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world ...would do this, it would change the world" William Faulkner. Some people would say that any kind of resistance to laws would be a negative impact on a free society, I on the other hand I believe it can actually create a positive impact on a free society. Doctor Martian Luther king Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Guatemala recent protest are all examples of how…

Background Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the world’s most outstanding leaders. Without his strong actions and words fighting for civil rights America wouldn’t be the country it is today. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia where he was one of three children. Growing up Martin had an older sister named Christine and a younger brother named Alfred and together they grew up loving and supporting one another. Young Martin was a gifted child that attended…

Martin Luther King, Jr: The Leader of the Past and Present “…all Men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” became the foundation of our independent nation in 1776. Abraham Lincoln reiterated this notion in his Gettysburg Address, stating the famous phrase, “Four score and seven years ago our father brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” However, in the…

very young, Rosa along with her brother Sylvester and her mother Leona went to live with her grandparents in Pine Level a town next to Montgomery, Alabama. Her grandparents lived at a farm and this is where she will live the rest of her childhood at. In one experience while she was living there Rosa's grandfather stood outside their…

Why did the Civil Rights movement take hold in the 1960's and not earlier? I believe that the civil rights movement took place when it did because the African Americans finally got fed up with it and had enough courage to do something about it. Fear and lack of leadership may have had a huge role to play in why this action took so long to materialize. I think that the wars that African Americans fought in had a big part of them finally rising up and saying that enough is enough. If they…

When we first started as a nation our biggest concern was how to we do things for the people. How do we organize an entire nation and not have them fear one single person. A dictator. But along the way as a nation we failed to see that idea fall through. As a nation we allowed a infinite amount of people of color to fear the lighter tones that walked freely on the lands of southern America. No matter the amount of peaceful ways people had took action it seemed the only to gain attention was…

illegal for public schools. This lead to the doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson. On August 28, 1955 a fourteen-year-old boy named Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi. The same year on December 1st, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to vacate her seat in the white section of the bus. This event would lead toward the bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr.. On the 9th of September, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil…

January 15, 1929, in atlanta Georgia. King was a civil-rights activist and a Baptist minister. Martin luther king jr. was an influential leader an powerful speaker who was known for his teachings and leadership. He led nonviolent protest such as the Montgomery bus boycott, voting rights march and the Washington march for jobs and freedom. King joined the civil rights movement to fight for a set of principles in which he believed for example non-violence. King refused to engage in violent actions…