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Il y a 2 jours · Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were important in bringing civil rights issues to public attention in the 1950s, but there were thousands or even millions of other people fighting for the cause.
Il y a 2 jours · Direct nonviolent action by African Americans achieved its first major success in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955–56, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Il y a 2 jours · On August 26, 2023, a march was held in Washington D.C on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. Organizers include Martin Luther King III, his wife and Drum Major Institute president Arndrea Waters King, daughter Yolanda and National Action Network leader Rev. Al Sharpton.
Il y a 3 jours · Local Activists Call for a Bus Boycott in Montgomery. This leaflet, produced by Jo Ann Robinson and others in response to Rosa Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955, called for all African Americans to stay off city buses on Monday, December 5.
Il y a 4 jours · In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
Il y a 4 jours · Some 200,000 people had come from all over the country to gather at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Earlier in the decade, Black and white Freedom Riders had been violently attacked when they rode through the South together on buses, hoping to provoke the federal government into ...
Il y a 5 jours · 1. Blumstein’s Department Store (1958) In 1958, King traveled to New York to promote his new book about the Montgomery bus boycott, Stride Towards Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
