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Early Life. In 1954, Martin Luther King becomes a Pastor at the Baptist church in Montgomery Alabama. He also heads a committee to promote African American rights and to look into arrests. Montgomery Bus Boycott. March 1955 – Claudette Colvin - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Early Life
• In 1954, Martin Luther King becomes a Pastor at the Baptist church in Montgomery Alabama.
• He also heads a committee to promote African American rights and to look into arrests.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
• March 1955 – Claudette Colvin
• December 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to take a seat at the back of the bus.
• Results in arrest.
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Montgomery
• Martin Luther King organizes a boycott which lasts a year.
• Takes the Parks case to Supreme Court where it is ruled that Alabama law is unconstitutional.
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• He was arrested and chose to spend two weeks in Jail.
• This brought national awareness to the Boycott.
• “I was proud of my crime. It was the crime of joining my people in a nonviolent protest against injustice.”
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• In the end, African Americans won the right to sit anywhere on public transit.
• Boycott ended on Dec 20, 1956.
• Martin Luther King jr becomes a national hero.
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Sit ins
• Restaurants were also segregated
• Many would not serve African Americans.
• The sit in movement was led by students that would occupy resturants and refuse to leave.
• This led to many arrests
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Birmingham
• Highly segregated city
• African Americans could not have jobs that involved contact with whites.
• To protest, a boycott of those stores was enacted and sit ins were used to disrupt business.
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Birmingham
• Use of Children in protest
• Eugene “the bull” Connor orders use of fire hoses and dogs to quell protesters including children.
• "The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln." JFK
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• To gather more attention for the movement, Martin Luther King led a March on Good Friday and was also arrested.
• After pressure from the media and the president, King was released.
• May 8th, business removed segregation policies and Jim Crow laws signs.
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March on Washington
• On August 28th 1963, 250,000 protestors converged on Washington D.C
• They wanted to ensure that Kennedy's new civil rights act was passed
• They also wanted equality in law and employment.
• Martin Luther King delivered the “I have a Dream Speech.”