This insubordination led to her getting arrested, which roused the black community into action. While the three other blacks finally obliged him, Parks refused to stand up.
The driver told the blacks in Parks’s row to rise so the white passenger could sit there. When more whites boarded the bus, one was left standing. Sitting in the same row was a black man next to her and two black women across the aisle. The bus had a special segregated section for blacks behind the white passengers, and Parks took a seat in the first row of the black section. On a December afternoon in 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, boarded a Montgomery City Lines bus. Events in History at the Time of the Speech King’s emergence as a civil rights leader In retrospect, his speech and the March on Washington during which it was delivered formed a pinnacle in the 1960s quest for civil rights. Before a live audience and all the major news networks, King declared 1963 the year to open the doors of social and economic opportunity.
On this historic occasion, the civil rights movement was transformed from a Southern regional struggle into a national one. King’s speech inspired a wide audience, galvanizing many to believe in the dream of racial equality. He delivered his climactic “I Have a Dream” speech before a crowd of more than 200,000 onlookers, 60,000 of whom were white. King, determined to advance black equality in the United States, soon became the de facto leader of the new civil rights era, and proceeded to travel, write books, and deliver speeches for this cause. A year later he rose to national fame by advocating nonviolent civil disobedience in his organization of a successful boycott of Montgomery’s segregated buses. Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968) accepted his first position as pastor of a Baptist congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954, after receiving his doctorate in philosophy from Boston University. In his landmark speech, King cites a one-hundred-year history of denial of equal rights to blacks in the United States, and he calls on both blacks and whites to turn the dream of social equality into a reality.Įvents in History at the Time of the Speech A speech made in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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