Segeration essays

Segeration essays In 1865, the 13th Amendment outlaws slavery and in 1868 the 14th Amendment grants equal protection of laws to blacks. Although these Amendments existed, white people did not always treat blacks fairly. Blacks struggled for the end of segregation, which meant that they were "separate but equal." The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed in 1909. There was much protest against segregation and against the unfair ways blacks were treated. Famous protests were restaurant sit-ins and the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist was sitting on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Blacks were required to give their seat up to a white person and sit in the back or stand if there were no seats available. When a white man told her to give up her seat she refused and was arrested by Montgomery police. When other blacks herd this news, they instituted bus boycott in Montgomery that started on December 5th, 1955. On December 13th, 1956, the United States Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation, and the Montgomery bus boycott end in victory on December 21st, 1956 Many protest were held against segregation. Most of them were nonviolent. Martin Luther King was a leader of many nonviolent protests. Many of them were modeled after Ghandi's Protests' in India. One of Martin Luther King's famous marches was in Washington D.C. in 1963 where he addressed more then 250,000 marchers with his famous "I have a Dream" speech on August 28th, 1963. Near the end of the speech he began making extemporaneous references to biblical prophets Amos and Isaiah. King stopped reading his speech and preached whatever came to him. His speech ended with "... let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania ... But not only that; let freedo...