Essay On Civil Rights Event

Imagine being in a classroom where someone has been told to sit in the back of the classroom, with the teacher knowing that they have eye vision problems. Try thinking about being someone's friend being told to turn around from a restaurant because the color of their skin. Will the world ever change? Will the violence ever stop? Are we still fighting for our rights in today’s world? This a glimpse of what my great grandmother’s generation went through as she aged. My great grandmother, Virginia Lee King, witnessed the most terrifying events from 1922 to the year she died, 1983. The major events that she witnessed are in the following order: The Brown vs. Board of Education, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Temple Bombing in Atlanta, Georgia, the Birmingham Bombing, the March on Washington, the New York School Boycott, and the Martin Luther King Assassination. The first event started the civil rights movement. On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down racially segregated schools as unconstitutional in its landmark Brown vs Board of Education ruling. The Brown vs Board of Education unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This event affected my great
This event is the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. This event affected her because she heard the sirens from the police about the shooting. Martin Luther King was fatally shot at the Lorraine in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King was shot by James Earl Ray. Martin Luther King Jr 's death affected the people of America by having to take a loss to one of our civil rights leaders. After his death, there couldn't really be anybody that could take his place and play his role in the Civil Rights Movement. His strong belief and speeches in non-violent protest helped set the tone of the movement (The Assassination of Martin Luther King