Information+on+the+African-American+experience+after+World+War+II1

Have you ever thought about how much far African Americans have come along over the last 240 years? From being slaves to the civil rights movements, and to now have the United States having an African American president.

People like Martin Luther King Jr were a very big reason for the way African Americans and White Americans can co-exist, not have such tension and have equal rights. Martin Luther King was an activist, clergy man and a leader in the African American Civil Rights Movement. He is very well know for his boycotts, marches, but most known for his epic and one of the most memorable speeches in history, his "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963 in Washington. "Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Price in 1964 for his work to end recital segregation, civil disobedience and other nonviolent means".Martin Luther King Jr has has been a very influence to African Americans if not the most influential in African American History not just there mid 1900's. Unfortunately "Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on April 4th, 1968 by a gunshot that hit him in the face that went through his cheek through his jaw causing him to need immediate emergency heart surgery but was sadly didn't make it and was pronounced dead at 7:05.

Another major African American in the 1950's was a female, who went by the name of Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was best know for here role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott which occurred on December 1st, 1955. Rosa when on a bus after work while on the bus and did not obey orders from the white bus driver to give up her seat, and make room for a white passenger. Many African Americans displayed this type of frustration, even within the same year "1955" people like Sarah Louise Keys 1955 and Claudette Clovin who did it the same year and only nine years prior on the same exact bus system. "It was Parks' civil disobedience that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

African Americans had a very hard time after world war two, but at the same time they were moving so far as a race to where they were before the 1950's. They went from having separate bathrooms, to separate water fountains and even separate shopping stores. To then having activists, leadership, riots, marches, and boycotts to became a less segregated nation and move forward and pave the way and mold the country to what it is today.

There you have it, what it was like for African Americans in the 1950's and after world war 2. It is very mind blowing to think that less than 65 years ago we as a nation didn't accept one another and to now having an African American President have equal rights and equal opportunities.