Lucy Maud Montgomery

5th(Martins’ birthday) is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Major Accomplishments 1: On December 5, 1955, Martin led a boycott against black and white separation on buses because of Rosa Park’s arrest due to not giving up her bus spot. At Montgomery, Alabama, him and lots of other African- Americans refused to take the bus. This boycott continued for 381 days, where 90% of African-Americans refused to ride buses. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act banned segregation on buses. 2: Martin…

not allowed to eat or shop in the same place as white people, not allowed to be with the whites on the same transport. Martin Luther King Jr. conducted a protest against public facilities in Alabama in 1955-1956 and lasted for 381 days. The Montgomery Bus Boycott began on December 1st. 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white bus…

walk to school. In 1929, while in the 11th grade, as her mother and her grandmother was ill, she had to leave school to care for her mother and her grandmother. She never returned to her studies. Instead, Rose Park got a job at a shirt factory in Montgomery. At age 19,…

Martin Luther King Jr was a renowned African-American clergyman and activist in the mid 1950’s. Due to his skin colour and nationality, he was well aware of the racism going around towards black people and how they lived an extremely unfair life, therefore he was determined to end racial prejudice. As well as the discrimination brought upon black people that led to Martin being a strong supporter of desegregation, his religious belief that racism was an insult to god’s will gave him even more…

She was the girl that changed everyone’s thoughts about the American Civil Rights movement. She was the girl that stepped on the bus and refused to give up her spot. She lost her job and violated the segregation law. Yet, she was the girl that was awarded the 1999 congressional gold medal. (“Rosa Parks”). Her name was Rosa Parks. She was known by many for her brave acts of preventing segregation and never giving up. “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” ,said Rosa Parks, one of her…

62). In 1954 Martin Luther King Jr became a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama . “On Sunday in May 1954 I preached my first sermon as minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church” (Carson, pg.76). Martin Luther King Jr took an active part in current social problems, and insisted that every member of the Dexter Avenue…

For 381 days, starting on December 5, 1955, African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama refused to use the bus system. Beginning as early as March of 1954, organizations upset with the conditions, such as the Women’s Political Council, also known as the WPC, recommended changes for Montgomery’s bus service. ------- At the time, the first ten seats were reserved for whites, while the ten back-most seats were reserved for blacks. Although the middle section was not officially assigned, African…

In the article “Montgomery Bus Boycott” by the A&E History Channel it is explained that in Montgomery, Alabama, along with many other cities, it was required that blacks sit in the back of the bus and whites sit in that front and if someone who was white came on the bus and the “white section” was filled up someone…

Rosa Parks was sitting in the first row for coloured people on the bus. There was no more seats left in the “white” section. The bus driver then told her and three others to move back, so the white people didn’t have to sit with the blacks. Rosa refused to move and got arrested. Rosa went to court and was found guilty and was fined $14. Rosa then had to overcome personal and financial hardships. She lost her job as a seamstress. She faced threats to her family and people who supported her…

filled in as a secretary for the neighborhood office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks got captured for declining to surrender her seat on the isolated city transport to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. This drove the isolation of open transportation to go under assault. The law required that when the white area of the transport turn out to be full, African-Americans to sit in the back of city transports and to surrender their…