On December 5, 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott began after the arrest of Rosa Parks. The Montgomery Improvement Association was formed, King was unanimously voted the president of the group. Over a year after the speech was given, (February of 1956) a lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court asking if Montgomery's travel laws were unconstitutional. That same month, King and other Bus Boycott leaders were put in jail for preventing the operation of the bus line business. Finally in November 1956 the US Supreme Court declared segregation on public transportation to be unconstitutional and King is released from jail. On February 14, 1957 the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed in New Orleans and King was elected president. In February and March of 1959, King and his wife travelled to India to study Gandhi's use of nonviolence. (Martin Luther King and.) On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, promoting equality and the abolition of whites only areas. (Atkinson.) MLK wanted to move forward from America’s past of segregation and racism. “Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate the valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.” (Martin Luther King I.) King wanted to put an end to segregation and all that comes with it in order to bring light to America’s dark times. Martin Luther King Jr. may have been popular among African Americans during the time but many people did not like his
On December 5, 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott began after the arrest of Rosa Parks. The Montgomery Improvement Association was formed, King was unanimously voted the president of the group. Over a year after the speech was given, (February of 1956) a lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court asking if Montgomery's travel laws were unconstitutional. That same month, King and other Bus Boycott leaders were put in jail for preventing the operation of the bus line business. Finally in November 1956 the US Supreme Court declared segregation on public transportation to be unconstitutional and King is released from jail. On February 14, 1957 the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed in New Orleans and King was elected president. In February and March of 1959, King and his wife travelled to India to study Gandhi's use of nonviolence. (Martin Luther King and.) On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, promoting equality and the abolition of whites only areas. (Atkinson.) MLK wanted to move forward from America’s past of segregation and racism. “Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate the valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.” (Martin Luther King I.) King wanted to put an end to segregation and all that comes with it in order to bring light to America’s dark times. Martin Luther King Jr. may have been popular among African Americans during the time but many people did not like his