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Civil Rights Leaders .
Leaders such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X all contributed to the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks, otherwise known as the mother of freedom, played a huge role in the Civil Rights Movement. She was the main person to start off the movement with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This movement started by her refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was on her way from work and she did not feel the need to move from the front of the bus to the back of the bus. Later on that night Parks was fined and arrested. Montgomery bus boycott got its name from African Americans not riding the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. This was to protest and stop segregation when using transportation. This protest lasted for 381 days, starting from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956 (Montgomery Bus Boycott, 2015).
Martin Luther King Jr. also became well known during the Montgomery Bus Boycott movement. He wrote speeches, and spoke of eliminating violence. He organized nonviolent protests to gain recognition on ending racial discrimination. King attracted more than 250,000 protestors in Washington, D.C., where he delivered his most famous speech, "I have a dream" (Martin Luther King, Jr, 2002-2015). All King wanted was to be recognized and for everyone to unite and become one. He wanted nothing but peace, love, and happiness amongst all races. It did not matter whether you were black, white, Spanish, or Indian; he just wanted segregation and racial discrimination to come to a solid end. With his famous speech, King touched many lives and inspired Congress to enact the Civil Rights Act in 1964 (Martin Luther King, Jr, 2002-2015). Within the same year Martin Luther King Jr. earned himself the Nobel Peace Prize. .
Laws .
Brown v. Board of Education, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, and The Voting Rights Act of 1965 all contributed to the Civil Rights Movement's success.
