Comparing The Civil Rights Movements Of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks And Malcolm X

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Around halfway into the twentieth century, African Americans went out and tried to transform the world once again. They also tried to abolish the Jim Crow laws. Several people helped impact the Civil Rights Movement, some of the well known people are Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X. These people are one of the main reasons why segregation changed. Therefore Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Malcolm X will be the most well-known figures that people remembered about the Civil Rights Movement. As the main leader of the non-violent civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. had many key involvements to make sure he accomplished his goal to give Black Americans freedom. The “I have a dream speech” is what everybody probably …show more content…

On December 1st it wasn't Rosa Parks first time resisting to give up her seat. On the first incident, she didn't want to pay in the front of the bus then walk outside to get in the back of the bus because it was raining. The bus driver kicked her off the bus and made her walk home in the rain, and her house was five miles away.(Monica Sanders, Understanding the HistoricalImpact of Rosa Parks) When December 1st rolled around, Rosa didn't want to give up her seat to a white person,(just so happens to be the same bus driver as it was a year prior who kicked her out) so the bus driver called the cops and arrested her. This made the black community very angry. So the WPC (Women's Political Council) decided to Boycott all the busses for one day. (Montgomery Bus Boycott, King Encyclopedia) Then after that they did a thirteen month boycott. The president or the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 this was Martin Luther King Jr. They picked Martin Luther to be president because he was new to the community and wasn't there a long enough time to make any friends or enemies. Once the Boycott started, 90% of the black community stayed off the busses. This was hard on the bus company and the Africans Americans, mainly because the African Americas had to walk everywhere. Also the bus system lost so much money. Because Rosa Parks didn't give up her seat for around 4 decades, she saw legalized segregation end, and

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