The Importance Of The Civil Rights Movement

Racial segregation, the separation of people based on their race, was becoming more and more prevalent in the 1950s and 1960s. In Montgomery, Alabama, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks sparked the civil rights movement on December 1, 1955, when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the white section of a city bus. Many were enraged by this and the Montgomery Bus boycott began. Four days later, the boycott began where African Americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery for a year, ending on December 20, 1956. Finally, in June of 1956, the Montgomery Federal court decided that all buses that were racially segregated were breaking the 14th amendment and were therefore unconstitutional, though the buses in Montgomery

The Montgomery Bus Boycott began with the public arrest of an African American woman and civil rights activist named Rosa Parks. As stated in Document A,”Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat down in the closest seat. It was one of the first rows of the section where blacks were not supposed to sit… The bus driver told Rosa Parks that she would have to give up her seat to a white person. She refused and was arrested.” Rosa’s arrest sparked a number of radical events that fought against racial inequality and segregation over the span of thirteen months. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful because it led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation among public transportation (especially buses) was unconstitutional. The Montgomery

Many people are honored for their leadership, impact, legacy, achievements and hospitality. At Columbus State University, there are multiple people that should be considered for an honor. Mary Blackmon started women’s athletics at CSU. Frank Brown , former president at CSU, transformed CSU from a commuter college into the massive university it is today. Thomas Whitley was the founding president at CSU. Carson McCullers was a well-known author in Columbus. All these people did something great for CSU. However, I believe John Townsend, the first African American student at CSU, is the one who deserves a statue .

The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955 which was the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. Events leading up to the bus boycott.

As a result, many of Montgomery’s African American citizens protested her arrest by boycotting the cities public transportation systems. Because of her bravery in refusing to leave her seat, she gained national recognition and fame, They bus boycott lasted until 1956, when the Supreme Court that segregation of city buses was unconstitutional. This boycott became the first organized protest by African Americans in the South.

For the majority of history in the United States, particularly in the southern United States, the hierarchy of white superiority remained a dominant and controlling reality. This mythology of white superiority went unchallenged for decades. However, as race relations and tensions started to climax during the era of the Civil Rights Movement, this discourse soon meet its challengers. In Montgomery, Alabama, arguably one of the most racist and defiant cities towards the movement of integration, people began to challenge the notion of racial segregation through a movement known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This movement, which lasted from December of 1955 to December of 1956, helped push the civil rights movement forward and challenge the

Prior to the Freedom Rides of 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 which last 381 days; a little over a year. Prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in a very important case that would end segregation in the school system, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In addition to the Supreme Court ruling African American’s hit several other milestones for example the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After the Brown decision on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Racial Inequality/Injustice On a December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks created a revolution by simply just sitting down on a bus. On her way home from a day at work, she sat in the first row of the “colored section”, but soon enough the bus became very full. When it gets too full they start to make the colored people move back. The first row of seats for the colored section happened to be where Rosa was sitting.

It is important because during the 60’s the Civil Rights movement was making little to no progress. So RFK giving examples of blacks making strides out side of the United States served as an encouragement and serve as a way to speed up the process of giving equal rights to the Blacks in the United States.

The Civil Rights Era is often recognized during its height in the 1950s and 1960s, however the beginning of the Civil Rights Era could be argued to start from slavery to freedom. Once the slaves gained freedom, with the help of Northern whites, they were able to enjoy some of the rights that was once reserved for whites. These newly found rights are due to the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which demanded universal male, the ratification of the 14th amendment, and guaranteed the citizenship of all natural born persons in the United States of America (Franklin, 242). Once the Reconstruction Era ended African Americans lost a large majority of their rights due to the Southern whites gaining back control and instituting a number of submissive laws called Jim Crow laws. On the path to equality African Americans have used a variety of approaches to secure their basic rights. Over the course of this movement different voices have spoken with their message of basic human equality being the same. In this essay I will discuss the 3 phases of the Civil Rights movement and its impact today.

Board of Education, 1954. In 1951, black students in Virginia objected their discrimination in the state’s educational system that was segregated. The leaders of this movement then proceeded to court to challenge the systems of the schools with five cases, which were combined under what is known as Brown v. Board of Education. In May 1954, The Supreme Court of the US ruled that it was unconstitutional to allow public institutions to be segregated (Adamson 11). Another event was the 1955-1956 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Ollhoff 18). In December 1955, Rosa Parks, who was a black leader, refused to give her seat for an American in a public vehicle. This led to her arrest. The African Americans then organized Bus Boycott of Montgomery demanding a bus system where all passengers were to be treated equally. After some boycotts, it was ruled by a federal court in November 1956 that the buses of Montgomery be

In 1955, the Women’s Political Council called for a boycott of Montgomery buses, instead encouraging more self-sufficient ways of transportation. The police and the rest of society was not happy about the boycott, which is why violence then ensued. Although many of the African Americans were beaten down, they were still united and brought together by the hope of change. More than 66% of the riders on the busses were black, therefore, most of the income for the bus company came from the African American community. When the boycott started, many of the buses were empty.

The Montgomery bus boycott was a long and uneasy process. It was very unfair “African American” had to leave there seat just to please a white by getting up and moving. Nobody stood up for what they believed in expect for one lady named Rosa Parks. After a long hard day of work Ms. Rosa Park had gotten on the bus and sat down at the first seat she had seen. Many more stops later, a white passenger. Imagine having to give your seat up every time a white passenger got on the bus, not fair right?

There has been many movements in the United States but none are more significant than the Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights movement was more than just getting rid of the Jim Crow Laws it was about getting equality for everyone no matter the race or color Danielle L. McGuire states “The Montgomery bus boycott was more than a movement for civil rights. It was also a women's movement for dignity, respect, and bodily integrity” (51). Since the slaves were freed there was a constant battle between blacks and whites and the rights of blacks were constantly violated. Although the rights of every African American were constantly violated Danielle L. Mcguire makes this argument by showing how women were constantly harassed. Putting women at the

Montgomery’s policy of racial segregation in its public transit system was unfairly racist which lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a political and social protest in 1955. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, when African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956, and is the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks’ court hearing and lasted 381 days. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered