The Civil Rights Movement was founded right after the World War II during the 1950s and 1960. It was originated from African American's and their aspirations and community strengths. Some key events of the Civil Rights Movements would be one that involved Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to give her seat to a white passenger while on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks was arrested for the refusal of her seat and she was also fined. This issue started a boycott in the city of the public busses in Montgomery. Dr Martin Luther King organized the Montgomery bus boycott. There were more than thirty thousand African Americans who were called to boycott against the city's busses.
During this boycott all blacks found other ways to get to work, school, church and places they needed to go instead of taking the bus and this …show more content…
Dr King was arrested and put in jail during a protest for segregation in many public places. The court had ordered that there could not be any protesting going on. After Dr King was let out of jail the protest became more intense. The SCLS gained many students for a thing called the children's crusade. The protest ended and jobs were to begin hiring African Americans for jobs. Once this happened Klu Klux Klansmen heard about it and basically acted violently and burned a cross in the park of Birmingham. This started more riots and African Americans started to care less about the non violence instead they needed the police beatings to stop and they needed jobs and