Ruby Bridges, Martin L. King Jr., and Rosa Parks are all very similar. They were all segregated, treated unequally, and had courage in themselves to make a big change in the world. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up on a bus. Ruby Bridges was the first African American to go to a white school. MLK Jr. ended segregation against african american, and gave his life for it.
People looked at Rosa Parks and decided to start the bus boycott, because at the webpage here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott, it shows this: “The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955—when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.” Martin Luther King Jr. had changed segregation all over the United States by giving his whole life, right here:
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They stayed for six weeks.” Ruby Bridges was a famous kid. She was the first African American to go to a white school. On the webpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges, it says that “Ruby Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, to Abon and Lucille Bridges. When she was 4 years old, the family relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans school system, even though her father was