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each other. The American civil rights movement began a long time ago, as early
as the seventeenth century, with blacks and whites all protesting slavery
together. The peak of the civil rights movement came in the 1950's starting
with the successful bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama. The civil rights
movement was lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached nonviolence and
"Love your enemies, we do not mean to love them as a friend or intimate. We
mean what the Greeks called agape-a disinterested love for all mankind. This
love is our regulating ideal and beloved community our ultimate goal. As we
struggle here in Montgomery, we are cognizant that we have cosmic companionship
and that the universe bends toward justice. We are moving from the black night
of segregation to the bright daybreak of joy, from the midnight of Egyptian
captivity to the glittering light of Canaan freedom"
In the Cradle of the Confederacy, life for the white and the colored
citizens was completely segregated. Segregated schools, restaurants, public
water fountains, amusement parks, and city buses
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discussing the situation Nixon called eighteen other ministers and arranged a
meeting for Friday evening to discuss Parks arrest and the actions they wanted
to take. Brown then took the case directly to
the Supreme Court of the United States. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others of the
similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the
segregation complained, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed
by the Fourteenth Amendment. For many years, we have shown amazing patience. ? Rosa Parks
was convicted and fined ten dollars plus four dollars in court cost.
In a state of high excitement, King waited for the next bus to go by. 5, 1955-Another Negro women has been arrested
and thrown in jail because she refused to get up out of her seat on the bus and
give it to a white person. They were soon used 400 miles away in
Montgomery, Alabama, where the most important boycott of the civil rights
movement was about to begin. , a people was reawakening to its destiny. The meeting was to be held at the Holt
Street Baptist Church, because it was in a black section of town.
Case after case the “separate but equal ?doctrine was followed but not
reexamined. Rosa Parks was arrested for violating the
Municipal code separating the races in Montgomery, Alabama.
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