The initial spark for the movement came from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, stating that separate, segregated facilities were inherently unequal. Other important events such as Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat, and the brutal murder of Emmett Till in 1955 increased the support for the movement. During this time period, Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence starting with the boycott of Montgomery’s buses. In 1957, it seemed like the movement had achieved many of its goals with the introduction of the Civil Rights act of 1957. However, the work of the Civil Rights movement was nowhere near
The initial spark for the movement came from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, stating that separate, segregated facilities were inherently unequal. Other important events such as Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat, and the brutal murder of Emmett Till in 1955 increased the support for the movement. During this time period, Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence starting with the boycott of Montgomery’s buses. In 1957, it seemed like the movement had achieved many of its goals with the introduction of the Civil Rights act of 1957. However, the work of the Civil Rights movement was nowhere near