Martin Luther King

The summary of the life of Rosa Parks

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1. She was born on 4th February 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama

2. In mid-1955, he began attending an educational center for workers' rights and racial equality, the Highlander Folk School.

3. On 1st December 1955,she was arrested because she didn't want to give his place to a white man

4. He was born on 15th January 1929 in Atalanta.

5. He died on 4th April 1968 in Memphis

6. He became the leather of the civil rights movements

7. In 1964, he won the Nobel Prize for Peace and in 1965, the American government finally made it possible for all African Americans to vote

8. Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis,Tennessee, in April 1968

9. In July 1968, the American Government passed the Civil Rights Act and finally African Americans had the same rights as white Americans.

10. From that moment on, Rosa Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement.

11. She died on 24th October 2005 in Detroit, Michigan

12. In 1943, Rosa joined the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and became secretary of the Montgomery branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

13. In 1956, Rosa Parks' case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled uncostitutional the segregation on Alabama's public coaches.

14. Martin Luther King believed in non-violent protest and he organised many campaigns against racial discrimination

15. The police was frequently arrested him and sent him to prison, but Martin continued the protest for the civil rights

16. In 1963, there was an important civil rights protest in Washington. Martin Luther King spoke to the people about his dream for the future: freedom and equality for all Americans.

17. His most famous sentence was:‘I have a dream’. His sentence is famous all over the world.