Did Martin Luther King Influence Rosa Parks And Thurgood Marshall

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The three most significant people are Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Thurgood Marshall. King led the SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and help African Americans have courage to fight for their right to vote. King gave his famous I Have A Dream speech after everyone was done giving his or her own speech at the March on Washington. Rosa Parks sat down for what she believed in. When Parks hade to get up for a white passenger she refused and claim she was tiered of doing what she was told. On December 1, 1955 she was arrested for not obeying James F. Blake’s and she was throne in jail. Thurgood Marshall was the first African American case that was in the Supreme Court. His case was a unanimous decision that segregated

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