Southern blacks simply stopped using the bus system to show that they weren't going to be treated unfairly, by the community, government and bus system. Every week the black community would gather and have a meeting about the protest, the leader of these gatherings would emerge to be Martin L. King who took charge of the boycott with the influential backing of the church. After over a year of boycotting the busses they went to the Supreme Court to prove that it was not legal to segregate blacks from whites on public transportation. Eventually, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to separate people based on their race. When the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the blacks, they knew it was going to change their way of life.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 showed that peaceful protests could be effective. In Montgomery, Alabama, buses were segregated, and the NAACP member Rosa Parks one day refused to give up her seat, and was taken to court for her actions. Eventually after a mass boycott of the busses, the Supreme Court ruled that the busses in Montgomery were to be de-segregated. This peaceful boycott shows that the peaceful protest method could be effective in gaining the results that civil rights movement wanted. Moreover such events such as the Freedom Rides, these were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961.
Acts passed by Eisenhower and Johnson had a big impact on the advancement of civil rights, with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ending all segregation of all public places and facilities, and the voting rights act of 1965 outlawing all measures to prevent American citizens from voting. These acts ended legal segregation, and had an impact on desegregating public places, voting rights and employment, with the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Legislation of this period was far more effective than previously, with the number of African Americans registered to vote jumping from four million in 1960, to six million in 1965, due to Johnson’s Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was initiated by Kennedy but failed to pass before his assassination. Furthermore, for each ineffective act passed, another was passed to increase the effectiveness and impact. For example, the Civil Rights act of 1964 extended the powers of the Commission on Civil Rights from those given by the 1960 Civil Rights Act, allowing them to enforce desegregation.
Yet again, serious violence developed at the hands of white racists. In response to this, Johnson introduced a further Civil Rights reform. In August 1965, the Voting Rights Act became law, removing all barriers which prevented black Americans from registering as voters. Results The non-violent campaigns of the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and early to mid-1960s achieved notable successes. With charismatic and intelligent spokesmen such as Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights campaigners had brought the plight of black Americans to the attention of the whole world.
The MIA(Montgomery Improvement Association) was formed with Martin Luther King as president. Leaflets were passed around the black community urging them to stop using the bus services. The effect was immense, with countless buses in Montgomery empty. An MIA meeting of 7000 was held in Holt Street Baptist Church, where it was decided that the boycott would continue. At that meeting Martin Luther King gave an inspiring speech that spread the boycott further among blacks.
He believed that racial integration should begins with each individual, as a prophet he travelled across the country in conflict with itself, and spoke to all that listened, he spoke to the country about its most dangerous disease-racism. In 1963 Martin Luther King led a march to Washington on the eve of the vote by the National Congress on the new legislation. The march attracted thousands of people who went with him to Washington. On the steps at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th he outlined his dream of his nation and brought to the world’s attention of how unfairly blacks were treated. His most famous speech known as ‘I have a Dream’, is accepted as one of the most effective speech ever
Her case draws much attention and goes to the Supreme Court. Martin Luther King, Jr. thought Parks’ defiance was brave, and in her honor, he launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott continued for over a year when the Supreme Court interrupted and acknowledged segregation on buses unlawful. The criminal case against Rosa Parks is dropped. Martin Luther King, Jr. was jailed for leading the anti-segregation protest In Birmingham.
don’t know yet 9. Today, we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day because of the accomplishments made by King in his honor to end the legalization of segregation in the United States. One accomplishment by Martin Luther King was organizing desegregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama. Another accomplishment by King was mobilizing sit-ins and marches by thousands of school children. King was eventually arrested by Birmingham police officers along with thousands of children.
He tried to persuade Wallace to stop the state harassment of the protesters. Two nights later, on March 15, 1965, Johnson presented a bill to a joint session of Congress. The bill itself would later pass and become the Voting Rights Act. Johnson's speech in front of Congress was considered to be a watershed moment for the civil rights movement; Johnson even used the movement's most famous slogan "We shall
The Union took up many strikes against DiGiorgio vineyards but in 1965 was the huge boycott against their grapes that the corporation had to get a judge’s order against picket lines on May 20th, 1965. Even with the judge’s order against the picket line, the protest didn’t stop. Cesar Chavez and his believers believed in non-violence, they began a vigil that lasted two months in front of the DiGiorgio gates. In 1966 Chavez and his followers march all the way to Sacramento. On March 10th, 1968 finally receives a piece of bread after fasting for twenty-five whole days.