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PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE, LIFE, image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The bus driver called the police and she was arrested.
        
        From there the Montgomery Bus Boycott begane. 40.000 African American boycotted public buses for over a year.
        
        The protest only endend when racial segregation on buses stopped in 1956. This was the beginning of the Civil Rights Moviment in the US.
- - - - When he was a child Martin used to play with the white children of the neighborhood but, with the beginning of elementary school at Yonge Street Elementary School, he is excluded from the games of his neighbors and, even, children are strictly forbidden to speak with he.
        
        During his adolescence, while attending Morehouse College thanks to a teacher he understands the importance of religion: only faith in God allows his black brothers to survive and believe that someone up there loves them.
        
        For the young man this sentence is such a revelation that, after high school, he enrolled in the seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. He completes his studies and, during the preparation of his degree thesis (later obtained at Boston University), he meets a girl, Coretta Scott Young.
        
        Coretta has in the past been the object of harassment by some racist sects and she too has the dream of being able to do something for her people. The two young people fall in love and in 1953 they get married to Marion, to then move to Montgomery in the Southern States, where both are determined to fight to no longer be judged inferior, but citizens like the others. .
    - - He became the Leadere of the Civil Rights Movement
        
        Martin Luther King believed in non- violent protest Organised many campaigns aganist racial discrimination.
        
        The police frequently arrested him and sent him to prison, but he continued to protests.
        
        In 1963, there was an important civil rights protest in Washington.
        
        The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to have the same right to freedom and equaity as white Americans andl to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The Civil War had officially abolished slavery, but it didn’t end discrimination against Black people—they continued to endure the devastating effects of racism, especially in the South and there was widespread segregation, discrimination, disenfranchisement and racially motivated violence that permeated all personal and structural aspects of life for black people. By the mid-20th century, Black Americans had had more than enough of prejudice and violence against them. They, along with many white Americans, mobilized and began an unprecedented fight for equality that spanned two decades.
        
        On 10 December 1964, in Oslo, he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
        
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