Section B

Segregation and discrimination were very frequent for the black people of America during the 1950 / 60’s. Black people were treated like trash, like animals. There was no such word as “Equal.” They hated each other! Blacks were rushed from their own homes, to work as slaves all over America. It was all about the skin colour, because they looked different, they weren’t accepted. They had their own little bunch or norms to follow. E.g. Use different drinking fountains, go to different pubs, go to separate shops and even had to sit at the back of the bus. The typical attitude of a white person was “whatever a black person came up with isn’t important.”

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15th 1959 – April 4th 1968) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1944 King Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and was admitted to  at the age of age 15. In 1948 (19 years of age) he graduated from  and entered Crozer Theological Seminary, destined to be a Baptist like his father. However during 1951 he graduated and left his studies.

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On the 1st of December, King joined the Bus Boycott. This was where a woman named Rosa Parks one day refused to move for a white person on the bus. The police were involved and ended up arresting her. The black people got so fed up of this that King had a talk that led the Black Community to stop using the busses hence the name “Bus Boycott.” Bus companies started loosing countless amounts of money and in the end gave up and let blacks sit wherever they wanted to, gave them the same rights as the whites.  In 1958 the ...

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