Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By Zion Jones. J. Williams. English IV. 4. What is the difference between a 5 April 2024 ii. Outline Thesis: He would be able to establish equal voting rights between the black and white people, and establish that all nations must treat all people equally no matter their skin color. Introduction African American Southern Christian Leadership Conference Bus Boycott Conclusion. Jones, 1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader who fought for equality. He was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He died April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was heavily influenced by his father, a church pastor, who kings say stood up to segregation in his daily life. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist in the 1950’s. King led the bus boycott movement to end segregation. His …show more content…
organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested and jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a White man on a city bus. Nine months before Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin had refused to give up her bus seat, as had dozens of other Black women throughout the history of segregated public transit. The boycott was a civil rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery due to segregated seating. King believed that a peaceful protest for civil rights would lead to sympathetic media coverage and public opinion. King started working with the NAACP and the SCLC. They turned their sights on Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and during the campaign King was sent to prison, where he wrote, “letter from Birmingham jail,” to address civil rights through legal means rather than protest. When the Montgomery Bus Boycott launched, Dr. Martin Luther King was only 26 years old and new to the city. He was selected to lead the newly established Montgomery Improvement Association, which guided the boycott and mounted the legal challenge to segregated