Segregation_Was_Terrible

Segregation was a terrible thing. It was based on racism against blacks. Segregation was after slavery separating blacks and whites. Blacks had to go to different schools than white and had to use different water fountains and bathrooms. This was the [|Jim Crow law] that separated blacks and whites. Blacks had to sit in the back of the bus. Blacks also had to sit in the back of the bus. This act started The Bus Boycott witch was started by Rosa Parks and this started The Civil Rights movement.This act was to not force blacks sit in the back of the bus, so Rosa Parks one time she got on the bus and didn't sit in the back she sat in the front and that's how she started The Bus Boycott. Whites on the bus she got on could not believe what she is trying to do they thought she was crazy and dumb. They knew all along that she would be beaten or even killed and put in jail if she wasn't killed. She didn't care about those things she was tired of being hated on and having rules just because she wasn't white.

She was arrested for standing up for what she believed in. There are many more movements that come after the bus Boycott. Rosa parks was a great person and just wanted blacks to be treated fairly like the whites.

Another huge part of the Civil Rights Movement was MLK Jr. He was an African American who wanted just like Rosa Parks to have blacks treated the same way whites did and have the same rights. He was great a peaceful person he didn't want to kill or hurt anyone he just wanted blacks to be treated the same way whites are. He wrote many speeches his most popular speech was I HAVE A DREAM. He had a lot of people on his side some were even whites, there were protest and everything this event was huge. Everything was going fine and then one day he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee and everything was going fine until he was assassinated on the balcony by James Earl Ray. MLK Jr. was only 39 years old when he was shot. He was a minister before the Civil Rights movement. He one the Nobel Peace Prize. A

There are monuments created after MLK Jr.

There are many events in the Civil Rights Movement but these are the ones that were big and important. There were a bunch of little tries to help end segregation but the failed and the African Americans were beaten and put in jail. If blacks would stand outside and hold up signs and protest against segregation they would be attacked by police dogs or shot at with fire hoses and sometimes put in jail.