History - Civil Rights
If someone asked me what the most important event that happened in the 20th century and had the most affect on the United States of America, my answer would be the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has changed modern America, it has enabled it to produce star athletes and top movie starts like Maurice Green, Will Smith. The civil rights movement is the revolution started by Afro-Americans in the 1950's and lasted until the late 1960's. It was a movement that rallied for equal rights to all citizens of America, no segregation in school, no segregation in restaurants. It eventually succeeded.The first person, which influenced and effectively started the civil rights movement was Rosa Parks, on the 1st of December 1955 she was arrested by the police in Montgomery for not giving up her seat to a white passenger. This was against the segregation laws. Later, E.D Nixon, a member of NAACP visited Parks and
It was landmark victory for the civil rights movement and it proved that justice could prevail. The boycott was a huge success and they continued to go on with it until the segregation of buses stopped. Later in the week, the President ordered the National Guard in. This case also allowed Martin Luther King Junior to come to prominence because he was just the local church minister in Montgomery but after his superb handling of this case, he came into recognition The second person had just a big impact on the civil rights movement; his name was Reverend Brown, he enrolled his child into an all white school. The court case was also won and Lynda Brown was allowed to go to the school that she wanted. This action started the civil rights movement because it gave the Afro-Americans belief that there was hope for fighting the justice system and the chance to win equality. When the school rejected the application because he was 'colored'. The suits charged that Montgomery's system of segregated buses were illegal. They were allowed to and were accepted by the high school. After one year of education the first black student graduated from Central High. So every time a student went to class, it would have a special bodyguard protecting him or her. But on the first day of school white students blockaded the entrance and didn't let them in. Nine black students enrolled in the local high school "Central High". In the early 1960's when segregation in the school system was banned by the High court of America following the Brown Case.
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