The story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King

1. Rosa Parks & Martin Luther King
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MARTIN LUTHER KING & ROSA PARKS
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2. ROSA PARKS
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3. ROSA PARKS
Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913- October 24, 2005) was an
American activist in the civil rights movement best known for
her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United
States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights"
and "the mother of the freedom movement".
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected
bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in
the "colored" section in favor of a white passenger, once the
"white" section was filled. Parks was not the first person to
resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was
the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after
her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama
segregation laws, and she helped inspire the black community
to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year.
The case became bogged down in the state courts, but the
federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle resulted in a
November 1956 decision that bus segregation is
unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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5. ROSA PARKS
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6. MARTIN LUTHER
KING
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7. Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 –
April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who
became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights
movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. An African
American church leader and the son of early civil rights activist
and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for
people of color in the United States through nonviolence and civil
disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent
activism of Mahatma Gandhi. His role in leading the cause of civil
rights in the South differed in style from the previous
accommodationist stances represented by Booker T. Washington
and black-and-tan faction leader Perry Wilbon Howard II. King
participated in and led marches for the right to vote,
desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights.He oversaw the
1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first
president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany
Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the
nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King was one
of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he
delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial. The civil rights movement achieved pivotal legislative
gains in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and
the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

8. Martin Luther King
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9. MARTIN
LUTHER
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