Montgomery, Alabama

race. Martin Luther King Jr. also known as “M.L.K.” was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. His father was a pastor, so he grew up very religious. “Martin followed his dads footsteps and become a minister of a church in the small city of Montgomery, Alabama. Montgomery was a great example of racism. Dr. King saw the racism and felt something was needed too be done. On December 1, 1995, “Rosa Parks chose not to give up her seat in front of a bus for a white passenger, resulting to being arrested.”(The

“Quite Strength incorporates life skills which demonstrate dignity with pride, courage with perseverance and power with discipline in a comfortable environment of peace.” (Achievement, 2010) This quotation embodies Rosa Parks’s philosophy as a person. Rosa Parks is a great example of that philosophy because of what she did. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was coming home from a tiring day at work and was sitting on the bus. At that time the law was if a white person needed your seat, a coloured person

stand up?.She did die unfortunately, but i very much respect her and what she did for us today. Rosa was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913… The daughter of a carpenter and a school teacher. She said “ I’d see the bus pass every day, the bus was among the first way I realized there was a black and world!”-Rosa…She worked at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery Alabama where a racial segratery was now allowed. Rosa faced injustice by taking action. December 1,1955 Rosa Parks knew she would

Rosa Parks a civil rights activist was born on February 4, 1913 and died October 24, 2005. Parks is known as the woman who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger. This took place on a Montgomery, Alabama bus on December 1, 1955. This was the day the citywide boycott had started. It wasn’t the first time Rosa Parks had sat in the wrong place on the city bus. She had said in an interview that the bus driver had evicted her before because she didn’t want to get on the bus from the back door

ways. In her early life Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a carpenter. When Rosa Parks was two her parents divorced and she moved with her mother and her baby brother to their grandparents farm(6). In 1933 Rosa married Raymond Parks. He was a barber and Rosa Parks took in sewing and other jobs over the years to help pay the bills. Together they lived in Montgomery, Alabama. After Rosa Parks did not give her seat to a white man

One such protest was the Montgomery bus boycott that led to the lifting of legal segregation on Montgomery Alabama public buses and also sparked many other social changes. A comparison of the two leaders can still be made although they existed in different eras; overall Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was more successful than

Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Rosa Parks refused to obey the mandatory guidelines for segregation on the buses. Shortly after a bus boycott was created and Martin L. King Jr. was elected president of the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association. I believe King's Letter from Birmingham Jail gave him an identity in the world for people who wanted to make a difference. The bus boycott did just that, the busses we desegregated a year later. King was used as an image

Martin Luther King Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15th 1929 growing up in the comfort of a rare black middle class community. His farther was the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church and an active member of the NAACP; the church would prove to be a large influence in Kings early life it became his "Second home" were he felt "special". His parents and family would repeatedly try to build his self esteem and confidence through telling him he was

essential part of my life and has shaped me into the person I am today. Marie Dean was born in Montgomery, Alabama to Walter Marie Dean and Herron Dean. She has lived in Montgomery all her life. She is the oldest of five children. She attended St. John Middle School, then for high school she attended Montgomery Catholic Preparatory High School. Along with going to school, my mother also

actions against peaceful demonstrators in Montgomery, Alabama. The ad was mostly accurate, but a few of the charges in it were not true. An example is that the ad said police “ringed” a college campus where many protesters were, but this charge was completely exaggerated. The ad also read the false statement: “When the entire student body protested