After the Rosa Parks incident, she and King organised the black boycott of Montgomery bus system in 1955. Once King realised he was achieving more rights for black people he led non-violent protests throughout America. Eight years after the boycott, King led a protest in Birmingham, Alabama. However the white people in Alabama didn’t approve of this and it turned into a violent protest, and King was arrested for his participation in the protest. Along with King, police arrested 1000 other protesters and many were beat with whips and clubs.
African American Struggles in the 1900s African Americans were faced with an insurmountable number of struggles and obstacles during the 1900s time period. Segregation: * Jackie Robinson is singed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947. * Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, December I, 1955, for not giving up her seat on the bus, for a white man, in the front of the ‘Colored Section’. In retaliation the community boycotted all public city transportation, such as buses, for one year. The buses were finally desegregated December 21, 1956.
The conductor called the police and had Plessy arrested immediately; he spent the night in the local jail and was released the next morning on bond. The Citizens Committee had already retained a New York attorney, Albion W. Tourgee, who had worked on civil rights cases for African Americans before. Plessy’s case went to trial a month after his arrest and Tourgee argued that Plessy’s civil rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution had been violated. While Judge John Ferguson had once ruled against separate cars for interstate railroad travel (different states had various outlooks on segregation), he ruled against Plessy in this case because he believed that the state had a right to set segregation policies within its own boundaries. Tourgee took the case to the Louisiana Supreme Court, which upheld Fergusons decision.
Marie Mullins GOVT 2305 Civil Rights Act Murders of 1964 Summer of 1964 has been labeled as “Freedom Summer” and changed the lives of many. African Americans had one goal in mind: change their voting rights by registering as many African Americans to vote as possible. Many of the volunteers descended unto Mississippi die to its low percentage of African American voters that were registered in that state. On the night of June 21-22, three workers were shot as close range. Their names were James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.
King’s first leadership role in the civil rights movement was as an executive in the National Association for the Advancement of colored people where he lead and organized the year long Montgomery Bus Boycott. Later the Boycott would lead to the U.S Supreme Court to rule that segregated buses were unconstitutional. He also became President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The group was different because they only used nonviolent strategies to get their point across and expose the evils of oppression. Martin Luther King spoke over 2,500 times and led marches and nonviolent demonstrations for black people to vote, desegregation, labor and other basic civil rights for all.
Public schools, transportation, restrooms, restaurants, water fountains and most public areas were segregated. Whites used these laws to keep their social dominance over blacks in the south. The Plessy vs. Ferguson Case all started when Homer Plessy sat in a white car of East Louisiana railroad, The Separate Car Act of 1892 requested him not to. He then was arrested when he identified himself as African-American and the case went to the United States Supreme Court. His lawyer argued the act violated the thirteenth and fourteenth Amendments.
There were even white people who sat next to the black people in order to show their support that they were all equal. This act enraged some white people and consequently they attacked many of these buses on their way to the states. The Montgomery First Baptist Church Attack was an incident when Martin Luther King went to the church and joined one thousand and five hundred people to support the Freedom Riders.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s letter “A Letter from Birmingham,” was a good example of a counter argument from “A Call to Unity” by eight white clergymen. His inspiration for writing the letter came from clergymen’s unjust proposals affecting African-Americans. Dr. King effectively created his argument by using logos, pathos and ethos. What also helped his case were his personal experiences. He lived during the time where segregation was everywhere in the United States, not as a white man, but as an African-American.
A group of offices named themselves “S.N.A.T” squad. This acronym stood for “Special Nigger Arrest Team” and they made it a point to harass African Americans whenever. “The number of people killed by police has gone down from the middle 1970’s to the middle 1980’s in major cities,” says Patrick V. Murphy, former head of police commissions in Detroit, New York, and Washington, D.C. Also, in Kansas City, Missouri, a police department there has 1,110
Attica Prison Riot Assignment After reading about the riot at Attica Prison I knew that it was a terrible riot where many inmates and guards were injured and over 40 were killed. I pictured the riot as one from a movie or television show where there was an uprising, a short stand still, then the police force ending it in a massacre. What the movie showed me was that this was not a movie or TV show and all the people involved, both inmate and guard, were a part of a civil war. These casualties I read about in the book weren’t just numbers but real people that if treated better could have avoided the riot all together. The Attica Prison is an old maximum security prison located in New York and housed mainly African American (54%) and Hispanic (9%) inmates that grew up in the inner cities and poorer parts of the state.