The beginning of segregation

Right before King started his movement, one of the biggest events of discrimination in the United States happened; the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest against segregation. Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was going home on a bus one night when the bus driver asked her to move from her seat. Back in 1955, riders of the African-American race were required to sit in the back of the bus to leave the front half for white people. She was sitting in the front half, and all of the other white seats had filled up. The driver got up and asked three people to move. Two of them moved, but Parks refused. She was then arrested and fined $14. Another example of this was Dred Sam Scott, who unsuccessfully sued for freedom. Things like this is what caused people like Martin Luther King Jr to stand up, and stop tolerating this injustice and discrimination. So, King started his movement.