Montgomery County

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines courage as “the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.” The countless people in the civil rights movement had to withstand bombings, attacks, and racial slurs. They had to persevere through their fear of police officers, the KKK, and anyone who held power over them. Many people lost their homes and jobs for participating in the protests. Martin Luther King Jr. received numerous death threats, and on one occasion

Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Joshua Wong. Two of these activists fought for black rights, and one activist fought for Hong Kong's independence from China. One activist who took dramatic measures was Rosa Parks. She was the one who started the Montgomery bus boycott in the us and protested for black rights. She was born

There are many ways to protest and there are many outcomes of the protests. Marches, Sit-ins, and Boycotts are all very effective methods of protests. There are many reasons why these methods of protest are effective. These include the amount of people that are involved, the amount of attention they create, and by sending the companies broke. By using these protests, the effectiveness of them has shaped American history and the protests are still remembered today. Marches are a very popular and

Each year at the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama, we welcome thousands of visitors, many of them students on school-sponsored trips. Among our goals is ensuring today

events were the foundations for the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. The Montgomery bus boycotts, the freedom rides, and the Selma marches were some of the most memorable major contributing events to the series of protests in the fight for Civil Rights. The Montgomery bus boycotts were a series of protests against the Alabama public transportation system due to the unruly arrest of Rosa Parks. In Montgomery, Alabama the buses of

December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, a forty-year-old seamstress, got arrested for refusing to vacate her seat and move to the rear end of the bus for a white passenger. Rosa Parks help start the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This incident organized a bus boycott that began on behave of the believe of Rosa Parks violating the segregation laws. According toTrueman, C N. “Montgomery Bus Boycott.” History Learning Site, 27 Mar. 2015 “ The boycott lasted more than a year

Over time in classrooms when history teachers mentions boycotting and the state of Montgomery, Alabama you may Automatically think about Rosa parks and the event that took place around her time. One of the main events that she is known for is not getting up from a seat on the bus, when she was asked just because of the color of her skin. Martin Luther King Jr, heard about this event that took place. A social movement was then started. African Americans started to boycott public transportation, not

Gabriel Ramirez Teacher E. Saires Class ELA Grade 6 October 25, 2017 The Racism “I have a dream, a single dream, continue to dream. To dream of freedom, to dream of justice, to dream of equality and hopefully no longer need to dream them.” (King,1963). The fight for freedom and equality of time before Rosa Parks defends her place in the front and oldest of a Martin Luther King Jr. game inspired by Americans with her famous dream. Throughout history, nations have described the guarantees and personal

Jim Crow racism was a big problem during the 1930s. A set of laws made in the 1870s, it originated with a minstrel show black character known as “Jim Crow,” which was used as a derogatory nickname towards the African Americans. The purpose of Jim Crow laws was to segregate whites from nonwhites. When these laws were in place, blacks did not have the rights to go to the same schools as whites, live in the same neighborhood as whites, drink out of the same water fountains as whites, and were denied

Episcopal Church and moved with her mother and younger brother to their grandparents’ farm in Pine Level, Alabama. Her education started with her attending segregated elementary school in Pine Level in 1918. Later, in 1924, she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School, which was a private school ran by Northern liberal white women. Finally, in 1933, she received her high school diploma and attended Alabama State