The civil rights movement was a movement to give the Black people the same rights as the whites. To do this they had to fight against the prejudice that people had against them, they had to change the very mindset of those around them, to show them that they were equal as well, that they deserved to sit where they wanted to in a restaurant, to have the same job opportunities as those around them, and the also vote for who they wanted in office. But how to do this was the big question at first, how do they get the government to change their laws to provide them equal rights? Yes, they were now free, but what is freedom if everywhere they turn there is people cheating them of their rights? When there is people like the Ku Klux Klan who set out to kill them? Officials Setting …show more content…
In 1955 at Montgomery, Alabama, a black woman by the name of Rose Parks was arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white passenger. Rose Parks part of a campaign against segregation group and they took this chance to start a boycott called the Montgomery boycott. Were people protested the segregation in buses, people stated using any other means of transportation rather than buses, they refused to turn to violence, choosing the more passive resistance against black discrimination. Following the example of India’s Mahatma Gandhi, who had led a peaceful protesting campaign in India. All this was led by a young man called Rev. Martin Luther King, who was the voice of the people, even when the bus company tried to fine him for boycotting, they still did not turn to violence. And in the end, they succeeded, after 301 days after the boycott had begone, segregation in buses was called unconstitutional, allowing equal rights for both white and black people on buses. It was this case that put the Civil rights movement into the public eye. It was a start of what is known as Modern Civil