Civil Rights Museum Project

Civil rights movement museum

By Davi Feu

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Montgomery bus boycott

The life and death of MLK

Marches in Birmingham

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The marches in Birmingham were in the summer of 1962, and, of course, in Birmingham, Alabama. The main reason this was the second target of the Civil Rights Movement was because this city had deniend African-Americans demands for change for years. MLK considered this city "the most thoroughly segregated city in the U.S". When Martin Luther King arrived, he was arrested for "parading without a permit". In jail, he wrote a letter about the racist problems in Birmingham. After marchs with adults seemingly failed, Martin chose children for the next march. Martin Luther KIng chose children because it was less likely they would be arrested of harrased. The children were trained how to march and behave properly, but few were ready for what was coming. On the first day of the march, almost 1000 children were arrested. On the second day, the police turned high-pressure fire horses to disperse the crowd. When the city's jails got full. police still fought back with nightsticks and attack dogs. The news about what was happened in Birmingham spread to the whole country. The people who watched it were horrified and outrage about his inhumane treatment of peaceful protestors. After President Kennedy sent 3000 troops to Birmingham to restore peace, Birmingham had to take down most of their segregation signs. Even after segregation was apparently over in Birmingham, it didn't change the mind of all people in the city. A church, which was King's old headquarters, was bombed in a Sunday morning in September of 1963.

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Martin Luther KIng JR. was an american minister and the Civil Rights movement's leader. He was born in January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Before being chosen to be the leader of the Civil Rights Movement, he was a minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. When the bus boycott started, he was 26 years old and new in the city. He was selected to be the leader of the newly established Montgomery Improvement Association(M.I.A). After the extremely successful bus boycott, Martin Luther King was chosen to lead the Civil Rights Movement. Then, at the marches of Birmigham, King was arrested for "parading without a permit". After the marches were finished, pressure from John F. Kennedy led to his release. At Washington, D.C, Martin Luther King along with 250,000 people attended the Washington March for Jobs and Freedom. On there, he delivered his most famous speech, the 17-minute long "I Have A Dream" speech. In the spring of 1968, King visited Memphis, Tennessee, to support sanitary workers ho were on strike. In April 4, 1968, King was assasinated by James Earl Ray in his Memphis hotel. President Johnson called for a day of mourning on April 7,.

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The life and death of MLK

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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was on a bus going home and was told to give up her seat for a white person. Rosa Parks, tired of giving in to segregation, refused to give up her seat. Later, she was arrested and taken to jail for not giving up her seat. 5 days later, sparked by Rosa Parks' arrest, the Montgomery Bus boycott started. 99% of African Americans in the city worked together in the Boycott. The organization that organized the boycott was called Montgomery Improvement Acossiation(M.i.A)., and the leader of this organization was called Martin Luther King JR. On the beggining of the boycott, it was pretty effective.. Instead of using the buses, people rode their bikes, walked, and carpools helped the elderly. The bus company started losing thousands of dollars in lost revenue, but it still wasn't over. Martin Luther King and his friend Ralph Abernathy were both arrested and had their houses bombed during the boycott. In the end, the boycott was sucessful. In December 20th, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was uncostitutional. The boycott lasted about 382 days, almost exactly a year. The bus boycott helped give African-Americans the courage to fight back and start the civil rights movement

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Montgomery Boycott

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Life and death of mlk

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This is a poster used to promote a mass meeting to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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