Film: Key individuals in the African-American Civil Rights Movement
Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
By Professor Brian Ward and Professor Joe Street, published 7th October 2022
![Photograph of Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King jr. (ca. 1955) Mrs. Rosa Parks altered the negro progress in Montgomery, Alabama, 1955, by the bus boycott she began. National Archives record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93). Public Domain.](https://history.org.uk/library/1907/0000/0140/rosa_parks.jpg)
Key individuals in the African-American Civil Rights Movement
The African-American Civil Rights Movement involved many significant individuals, some prominent and some less so.
In this film, Professor Brian Ward and Professor Joe Street of Northumbria University look at the role, significance and legacy of three key figures in the movement: Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X and Rosa Parks. During their discussion, they also touch upon some of the other important people involved in the movement who, while less prominent, were nevertheless vital to the development and success of the Movement.
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