and Rosa Parks; Two well-known people involved in the Civil Rights Movement. However, what many people do not know is there were so many other people involved, other events that not many recognize. All of which made a significant impact on the outcome that the Civil Rights Movement had created. Historians all have different ideas and perspectives about this particular period in the United States. Fewer historiographical questions arise from the perception that it was both successful and unsuccessful. But within its successes, as well as its failures, comes the conclusion that the Civil Rights Movement was a series of phases, both helping and hurting the working people of the United States. .
Racial oppression was brought to white Americans as black Americans fought for equal rights during the Civil Rights Movement. The North was embarrassed and ashamed that the South ignored and resisted the change. The movement overturned Jim Crow Laws, which divided whites and blacks. This affected everyday life including education, transportation, and jobs. It was felt by some historians that the movement began early in the 1940's. This was a time when millions of black Americans from the South moved up to the urban North. Unionization allowed black Americans to have a political link to labor, which allowed them a voice in the government. As the economy grew in the mid-1940's, employment also expanded along with higher wages. As the Cold War became an issue, the advances that the black Americans were gaining economically were temporarily put on hold. .
During this time, black Americans were once again in deep struggle. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the great leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He was asked to serve as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The primary objective of the MIA was to persevere the boycott of the city's segregated bus situation after the arrest of Rosa Parks in December of 1955.
