The Montgomery Bus Boycott Birmingham Protest And The Selma March

The Civil Rights Movement was a important time in history. It changed the lives of African Americans for the better. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Birmingham Protest, and The Selma March were three of the events that played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights movement focused on segregation and giving African Americans a voice in the world.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a mass nonviolence protest against the law system that lasted thirteen months (Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia.), because African Americans wanted to desegregate the bus system. This event was caused by Rosa Parks when she refused to give up her bus seat for a white man to sit down. Later, she was sent to jail. (Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia.).

This was when SCLC marched in protest of local resistance to African American voter registration. John Lewis, leader of the march, and Hosea Williams, who was apart of the SCLC, participated in the Selma March(“Selma-Montgomery March.” Civil Rights Digital Library, crdl.usg.edu/events/selma_montgomery_march/.) There were five to six hundred demonstrators that were attacked. This led Martin Luther King Jr. to lead 3,000 marches about African Americans(“Selma-Montgomery March.” Civil Rights Digital Library, crdl.usg.edu/events/selma_montgomery_march/). One of the causes of the event was when John Lewis’ protestors were stopped by state troopers, who beat them and killed many of them. Also, when President Johnson sent legislation to protect African Americans from many barriers that stopped voting. The Selma March was a successful event because two days after the march, where protesters were beaten, MLK led 3,000 over the same bridge where national guard was sent to protect the protestors. This event led to people and legislation supporting African Americans rights to

The Montgomery Bus Boycott focused on the bus system and fixing the rights that African Americans had with bus transportation. This event was backed by The Birmingham Protests focused on using sit-ins, media, and a few protests to stop negative commentary against African Americans. This was followed by The Selma March, which focused more on giving African Americans a right to vote freely.

Despite all of these differences, there were also many similarities. Martin Luther King Jr. participated in every single one of these events, in order to hopefully gain rights for African Americans. Every event was pushing for equality with the absence of any violence. All of the events led to African Americans getting rights that they did not have before. There were many different people who participated in these events, but in the end they all wanted the same thing to come out of each