One thing that helped fuel the Montgomery Bus Boycott, was that all blacks didn't want to give their seats up to whites, and then move to the back. But the one major thing that set it off was when Rosa Parks would not give her seat up to a white male in 1955. She was removed from the bus, taken to jail. That set off a spark in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to do something about this racism, in as many places as he could possibly could help, later on.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was no doubt one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, part of the Civil Rights Movement. He didn't want to protest with violence, and he didn't protest like that. But how he did protest was with his words. His very powerful and moving words helped fight for equality in all races, shapes and sizes. A lot of people in the times of now really think that MLK was the whole movement, but he couldn't accomplished this great feat alone. Martin Luther King Jr. Website
The end of the Brown vs. Board of Education trial was pretty much what started the Civil Rights Act of 1955 - 1965. This trial was about a young third grade African American girl, who had to walk a mile to a African American school, while a white school was only seven blocks away. Her father didn't like the fact that his daughter had to walk so far to get to school, so he took it to court. After they won this trial, African Americans took control of this opportunity to try and get equal rights in everything.
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