he began his career as a Baptist
preacher but went on to lead a sweeping
grassroots effort to end racial
discrimination known as the civil rights
movement along the way
Martin Luther King jr. made history and
emerged as one of the most influential
leaders of the 20th century before the
civil rights movement began segregation
policies known as Jim Crow laws kept
African Americans in a separate and
generally inferior world from whites
african-americans went to separate
public schools aid in separate
restaurants and even had to use separate
public restrooms they had to sit in the
back of buses and give up their seats to
any white people standing but in 1954
Jim Crow suffered a stunning defeat the
Supreme Court declared that separate
schools for blacks and whites were
inherently unequal in a case called
Brown versus Board of Education the
following year in Montgomery Alabama a
tailor’s assistant named Rosa Parks
refused to give up her bus seat for a
white passenger Parks was arrested but
Martin Luther King organized a
full-fledged boycott of the Montgomery
city bus system thirteen months later
the buses integrated the Montgomery
boycott inspired more efforts to end
segregation in 1963 King and other civil
rights leaders organized the march on
Washington more than 200,000 people came
to the nation’s capitol to demand
equality for blacks and urged Congress
to pass pending civil rights laws
standing at the base of the Lincoln
Memorial King spoke the words I have a
dream today describing his hope for a
future in which all men would be
the civil rights movement was changing
the nation in 1964 Congress passed the
Civil Rights Act which made racial
discrimination in public places
illegal the same year King was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize on April 4th 1968
Martin Luther King was assassinated in
Memphis Tennessee but the movement he
helped to lead lived on inspiring other
groups such as Hispanics women and the
disabled to fight for equal treatment
under the law
and completing King’s legacy of greater
social justice for all Americans
preacher but went on to lead a sweeping
grassroots effort to end racial
discrimination known as the civil rights
movement along the way
Martin Luther King jr. made history and
emerged as one of the most influential
leaders of the 20th century before the
civil rights movement began segregation
policies known as Jim Crow laws kept
African Americans in a separate and
generally inferior world from whites
african-americans went to separate
public schools aid in separate
restaurants and even had to use separate
public restrooms they had to sit in the
back of buses and give up their seats to
any white people standing but in 1954
Jim Crow suffered a stunning defeat the
Supreme Court declared that separate
schools for blacks and whites were
inherently unequal in a case called
Brown versus Board of Education the
following year in Montgomery Alabama a
tailor’s assistant named Rosa Parks
refused to give up her bus seat for a
white passenger Parks was arrested but
Martin Luther King organized a
full-fledged boycott of the Montgomery
city bus system thirteen months later
the buses integrated the Montgomery
boycott inspired more efforts to end
segregation in 1963 King and other civil
rights leaders organized the march on
Washington more than 200,000 people came
to the nation’s capitol to demand
equality for blacks and urged Congress
to pass pending civil rights laws
standing at the base of the Lincoln
Memorial King spoke the words I have a
dream today describing his hope for a
future in which all men would be
the civil rights movement was changing
the nation in 1964 Congress passed the
Civil Rights Act which made racial
discrimination in public places
illegal the same year King was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize on April 4th 1968
Martin Luther King was assassinated in
Memphis Tennessee but the movement he
helped to lead lived on inspiring other
groups such as Hispanics women and the
disabled to fight for equal treatment
under the law
and completing King’s legacy of greater
social justice for all Americans
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