Question

Often times when we study the Civil Rights Movement, we focus on well known individuals like MLK and Rosa Parks. How were the successes of the Movement a combination of group and individual actions?

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

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Often times when we study the Civil Rights Movement, we focus on well-known individuals like MLK and Rosa Parks. But in reality, the success of the Movement was a combination of group and individual actions of people who really committed to fighting for the rights of African Americans.

There were powerful organizations that participated in the movement such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) or the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights(LCCR) who played an important role in the process.

There were also other major events that are marked as important hiatus in the story of the civil rights moments. I am talking about the Greensboro sit-ins, the March on Washington, or the Salma to Mongomery Marches.

Regarding Rosa Parks, let's remember that Rosa Parks was the woman arrested in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. She denied giving her seat to a white passenger in a bus. That was the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.