INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

Civil Disobediance

The Museum of

By Charlie Izenstark

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She died on October 24th, 2005 at 93. Rosa is best known for her pivitol role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and in ending segregation for all blacks like herself. She always wanted to initiate the civil rights movement in the United States.

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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On December 1st, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks illegaly rode in a white train car on a train. When asked to give up her seat to a white passnger, she refused and stood her ground. Rosa was arrested later that day.

After the arrest, the neighborhood blacks wanted to start a peaceful protest against segregations on trains. They did not ride the bus and instead found different ways to get to work, like biking or walking.

In the 1960's four college from Greensboro, North Carolina came up with an idea for a peaceful protests for all blacks at restaurants. The youngest of them being 17.

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The Greensboro Sit-ins

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Their idea was to sit in a local restaurant and wait until they were served. They would wait for hours and hours. The protest eventually spread to hundreds of people who all had something to say about segregation.

While the protest seemed like it was working, everyone who was participating was getting treated the same. The whites were throwing food at them, and yelling at them. While the idea seemed very successful at first, it wasn't as successful as the bus boycott.

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March on Washington

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Martin Luthor King Jr. Was born January 15th, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He died April 4th, 1968 after being assassinated in Memphis, Tennesee. He was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movements. He is most famous for his "I have a dream speech" which he gave to America where he spoke of his dream of a United States that is void of segregation and racism.

More than 250,000 people came to Washington, D.C., on August 28th, 1963 to march for civil rights. Even more people watched on television across the country.

Here is MLK Jr. giving his "I have a dream" speech infront of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In the speech, he used repetition and many powerful words like, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." MLK freed all Blacks from segregation and the speech is remembered as an important day history.