Lucy Maud Montgomery

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    In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated Dec. 21, 1956. As newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., is instrumental in leading the boycott.” The Bus Boycott was a big event in the south back then as for they refused to get on buses and some whites lost jobs for this.“The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on…

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    always be at the front of this cause and be part of it. And if any danger came he would stand his ground because he cared a lot about what he did and was to do. He also brought people together by doing peaceful marches (protests) in the city of Montgomery. He also spoke to the people through his speeches. His most famous speech is the, “ I have a Dream”…

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    Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her defiance of giving up her seat on a bus for a white passenger got her arrested and she had to pay a $10 court fee but that paid off because it lead to many boycotts and riots that finally Montgomery, Alabama withdrew the law of segregation on public buses. During her early childhood she was discriminated by the color of her skin. Because she was colored she had to attend segregated schools. Colored students were forced to walk while…

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    I have dream Martin Luther king was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. He was the first son and second born, he was born to a very Christian family. His father was a minster. At a young age martin show the need for the social change King first came across discrimination, aged six, when he and a white friend were sent to different schools. Aged 14, King was forced to give up his bus seat for a white passenger on a ride home from Georgia. He had just won a contest, with a speech about…

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    if someone considered "white" wanted your seat, they'd ask you to move. That is what life was like for many Black people living in the United States during institutionalized segregation over 60 years ago., and Rosa Parks, a seamstress working in Montgomery, Alabama, was no exception. Preceded by Claudette Colvin, another woman…

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    On December 1, 1955, a rather cold day in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42 year old seamstress, Rosa Parks, got on the Cleveland Avenue bus after a long day of work. She sat down with no intention to start a fight(“Rosa Parks”Biography.com). As a black woman, she was required to sit in the back of the bus according to the laws of segregation at that time. Whites and blacks were segregated in many ways of life - restaurants, drinking fountains, public bathrooms as well as all forms of public…

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    along with many other activists played a very crucial role towards the second reconstitution. The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56 was held under his straight direction. It happened when a lady named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus. New policies developed in 1956 to rule out racial discrimination on public transports (“Martin Luther…

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    Martin Luther King Jr was a Baptist minister. He was also a social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement. He is best known for his freedom of speech which was established when they had the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. I Believe Martin Luther King Jr was successful because King Jr. was an important voice of the Civil Rights movement. This made which worked for equal rights for all. He was also famous for using nonviolent resistance.…

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    Peaceful resistance to laws has played a big key in our nations history to obtain a change in the free society of the United States. We saw it back in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr and his followers peacefully protesting to get what they wanted. They always tried to avoid violence at almost all cost, but it was the nationalist majority race that was saying otherwise. In the end due to peaceful protesting they got what they want which is why it seems like the most effective…

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    The Mother of the Freedom Movement ‘ Rose Park’ One of the bravest black woman who played the role to have the equal rights for the white and black people in the United State. She became the reason for changes which established the equality and destructed the roots of disparity among the same citizens. Initially, while traveling into the public transportation in the United State; black people had to give their seats to the white if they wouldn’t do so, they were arrested by the police and…

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