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MLK's Work For
Civil Rights
- 1950s
- He organised The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956 (with Rosa Parks as the test case)
- He organised The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956 (with Rosa Parks as the test case)
- 1960s
- He supported The Freedom Rides, 1961, where 13 civil rights
activists (black and white) rode on interstate buses to travel from
Washington DC through to the South, where there was the most
racial hatred
- He organised The Freedom Marches, 1963, including the
March on Washington where he made his I Have A
Dream speech
- He supported The Freedom Rides, 1961, where 13 civil rights
activists (black and white) rode on interstate buses to travel from
Washington DC through to the South, where there was the most
racial hatred
- 1955-1963
- He encouraged a non-violent and peaceful way of protest, this is what gained black civil rights
- Presidential leaders like JFK and LBJ
(after JFK) met with MLK to discuss the
future of black civil rights; he was
respected by government officials and
inspired many black - and white - student
activists to challenge he Supreme Court
and any Jim Crow Laws that remained
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