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Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King

    In the 1950s African Americans couldn't go to the same schools as white Americans. On buses and trains they had to sit in a different section from white passengers. African Americans had to go to different hospitals and shops and they couldn't eat in the same  restaurants with white Americans.  

    The law at the time said African Americans were 'separate but equal' - so they had to

      live separate lives from white Americans. 

 

    In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks (1913-2005), an African American woman, was on a bus on her way home from work. When she refused to give her seat to a     white man, the bus driver called the police. The police arrested her and the                      Montgomery Bus Boycott began. 40,000 African Americans boycotted public buses

for over a year.              

    The protest only ended when racial segregation on buses stopped in 1956.  

    This was the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the US. 

 

    One of the leaders of the Montgomery Bus Boycott was African American church minister,     Martin Luther King (1929/1968). He became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.         The Civil Rights Movement wanted African Americans to have the same right to freedom     and equality as white Americans. Martin Luther King believed in non-violent protest         and he organised many campaigns against racial discrimination. The police frequently         arrested him and sent him to prison, but he continued to protest. 

 

    In 1963, there was an important civil rights protest in Washington. Martin Luther King         spoke to the people about his dream for the future: freedom and equality for all                 Americans. 

    He began with the words: 'I have a dream'. His speech is famous all over the world.  

    In 1964, he won the Nobel Peace Prize and Time Magazine named him “Man of the             year”. 

    In 1965 the American government finally made it possible for all African Americans to         vote. 

    Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on 4th April 1968. 

    In July 1968 the American Government passed the Civil Rights Act and finally African  Americans had the same rights as white Americans.

 

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