Rosa parks was a 42 year old woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man which touched off the montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks believed in freedom and she believed that we should all be treated the same. Her goal was to fight for civil rights and equality.If Rosa Parks was here today she would still fight for equality and there would be many people fighting too. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a well-known civil rights leader and activist who had a great deal of influence on American society in the 1950s and 1960s. His strong belief in nonviolent protest helped set the tone of the movement. The boycott was teetering on the brink of failure, faced with a potentially crippling legal challenge to the carpool system on which the boycotters relied, when news arrived that the Supreme Court had struck down the segregated bus system as unconstitutional. Across measures ranging from …show more content…
He protested about racial prise, self-sufficiency, and equality for all people of Black and African descent. Malcolm X believed that violence was needed for self-defense. In today’s society the current problem that we’re facing right now is law enforcement, but it’s nothing new though, police brutality has been going on since the late 1830’s. Around the civil rights movement police officers abused African Americans, they would lynch them, pepper spray them, spit on their faces, let their dogs attack them, and even hit them with their baton. Police brutality today is terrible, police officers are abusing African Americans just like they did during the civil rights movement, it’s like we’re reliving the past all over again. It now came to a point where African Americans had to make a club called Black Lives Matter. African Americans felt that they were being targeted, and now they feel like they have to take action and make sure we don’t relive the