Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African American Civil Rights Movement. He believed in helping out his people without violence.
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Malcolm X
Malcolm Little, known as Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. He believed in helping his people with violence, since he believed that even if he did it with non-violence, the white people weren't going to follow anyway.
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Bus Boycotts
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, four days before the Boycott began, an African American lady named Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat for a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was then arrested and fined for doing that. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery started happening on the day when people heard about Rosa Parks' court, which lasted 381 days. The Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to deal with the whole bus system and a leader of the Boycott who was a young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr. He took wake of the whole action.
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