The many leaders of the civil rights movement were: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, little rock nine, John Brown, Linda Brown, Ruby Bridges, Frederick Douglass, Plessey Scott, JFK and Malcolm X. All these men and women had a great influence on the success of the movement in the United States and helped end racial segregation. It all started in 1954 in Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas. The people involved were John Brown and Linda Brown. This happened because of the separate but equal law created 60 years earlier in the Plessey v. Ferguson case when Plessey lost and created separate but equal laws. Separate but equal separates blacks from whites in different places like restaurants, restrooms and buses but they get “equal rights.” This was one of the many things that helped start the civil rights movement. The case was later solved. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested by the police in Montgomery because people thought she violated racial segregation. He sat in the middle of the bus and refused to give up his seat to a white man when the bus began to fill. Because of this, a boycott began in the city of Montgomery. Many people consider Rosa Parks the mother of civil rights. 75% of the Montgomery bus system was African American, so they lost a lot of profits when the boycott began. Martin Luther King would come a few months later to help with the boycott. This is when the movement truly begins. The boycott lasted 381 days. In 1957, Martin Luther King Jr. became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This is an organization for the rights of African Americans and to help them obtain them. This made Martin one of the most prominent canine Supreme Court justices to serve on the court. Then Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. He died April 4, 1968 in Memphis TN. James Earl Ray faced murder charges against Martin because James was a criminal who escaped from prison. He was shot in front of his hotel room. He died at the age of 39 while being taken to hospital. It was a very sad time for the movement because of one of its most important leaders (4). When Martin died the movement slowly died and became one of the most historic and famous groups. There were many things named after Martin Luther King Jr. This movement is important to the topic [rights and responsibilities] because it speaks to the harsh struggles that African Americans faced during the 1950s-1960s to gain rights civilians they wanted so as not to be treated badly and segregated from the rest of the United States.