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    Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. As Prof. Baldwin from the magazine religious and ethics stated about King “He was able to connect with the spirituality of the people there in Montgomery‚ and I think that’s very‚ very important when you want to pastor people if you want to lead people in a social movement.” (Baldwin 2). After the events that happened on December the 1st 1955‚ where Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery Alabama for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger

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    boycott of the buses. This was an extremely successful form of protest during The Civil Rights Movement. The first day of the boycott having been successful‚ King‚ E.D. Nixon‚ and other civic and religious leaders created the Montgomery Improvement Association—so as to continue the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The MIA managed to keep the boycott going for over a year until a federal court order required Montgomery to desegregate its buses. The success in Montgomery made its leader Dr. Martin Luther King

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    sources a judgement is clear that Martin Luther King Jr. actions were powerful and influential. King revolted against hatred‚ oppression and had the desire of true freedom for the African American society. (bit emotional here) King.... the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957‚ (narrative) serving as its first president and inspired millions of followers with his motivational speech “I have a dream”. King had been exceptionally inspired by a dream

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    was lovong in Montgomery‚ was detained and then fined for refusal to give the sitting in the bus to the white passenger as it was required under the local law. The same year in Montgomery in buses five women and two children‚ not including black men were arrested‚ one black man was shot by the driver. After Rosa Parks’s arrest Ad Nixon heading local labor union of conductors of sleepers called a Black community for boycott of city transport in protest. Boycott of bus lines in Montgomery soon was headed

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    the racial identity models discussed in our text. I chose Rosa Louise McCauley Parks‚ a Civil Rights Activist‚ known for the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955‚ the same date of her trial for the crime of not giving up her seat on the bus for a White boy because she said‚ “I’m not moving; my feet hurt”‚ which at that time in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ segregation on public bus transportation was law‚ and Blacks had to give up their seats to Whites if there were none for them. I feel Rosa Louise (McCauley)

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    experiences which one of them is the Montgomery Bus Boycott event where she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on the bus. This essay will show an analysis on different interpretations of Rosa Park’s involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott using various website sources. According to this website (http://www.history.com/topics/rosa-parks) on December 21‚ 1955 is the day when the Montgomery bus boycott happens. The way it happened is when she entered the bus and sat down and Black people

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    intentions of the Stonewall Riots and Montgomery Bus Boycott. From this analysis‚ in Kaplan’s film rebellion and civil disobedience

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    the Montgomery bus boycott when she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person for she was tired after a long day at work. The emergence of Martin Luther King Jr. was along with the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ as the ring leader. The Boycott lasted for a total of 382 years‚ was brought together and maintained its strength through Martin Luther King Jr. and it lead to the birth of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The busses became desegregated in Montgomery yet

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    and Blacks had different churches‚ schools‚ stores‚ elevators and even drinking fountains. Places often had signs saying "For Colored Only" or "For Whites Only". The bus system was set up where blacks would sit at the back of the buses while whites would sit at the front. Blacks would have to give up their seats if whites came on the bus and there were no seats available. Also‚ if there were seats available at the front blacks were not allowed to sit in them. Rosa was deeply affected by the unfair

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    The Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Papers Project Interview by Martin Agronsky for “Look Here” Oct ’957 27 27 October 1957 Montgomery‚ Ala. After Sunday services at Dexter on z 7 October‚ seventy-jive church members assembled in the auditorium to watch Agronsky‚ host of the weekly NBC television program “Look Here‚ ” interview their pastor.’ Though broadcast nationally‚ viewers i n more than thirty-jive counties of Alabama did not see the program after vandals sabotaged the transmission by wrapping

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