1. Nelson Mandela
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to abide by one of Montgomery's laws requiring segregated seating on city buses. ... Then, when the city blocked that measure, the group organized carpools. ... On December 21, 1956, the integration of Montgomery city buses became mandatory. ... He benefited from the criticism of white New York lawyer Stanley D. ... This city was considered to be the most segregated in the country. ...
The 1960's was a decade that changed the world. This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American as...
AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. The sixties also showed Communism coming into the Western hemisphere and thus coming...
Birmingham was the largest city in Alabama with a population of approximately 225,000. During the 1950s and 1960s, Birmingham was one of the most segregated cities in the South with strict city ordinances that made it unlawful for different races to mix and mingle in almost all social settings. ... ACMHR and SCLC sought to desegregate public facilities and attain equal employment opportunities for Birmingham's black citizens by targeting the city's department stores. ... ACMHR and SCLC sought to desegregate public facilities and attain equal employment opportunities for Birmingham&#...
The Women's Political Council (WPC), a group of Black professionals founded in 1946, had turned their attention to Jim Crow practices on the Montgomery city buses in 1953. ... Robinson and the WPC responded by calling for a one-day protest of the city's buses on December 5. ... As Blacks remained off of the buses through 1956, city officials and whites responded with hope of defeating the boycott. ... City officials obtained injunctions against the boycott in February 1956 and arrested 156 protesters under a 1921 law prohibiting the hindrance of a bus. ... The same week, on February ...
We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. ... We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. ...
The Safety of African Americans During The Civil Rights Movement: From A Literary Perspective There are many literary works that address the violence associated with the civil rights movement. These works, though written for different reasons, essentially serve the same purpose. Two such w...
The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people ei...