Before Martin Luther King Junior, the African American civil rights movement was just another injust idea in the U.S. Segregation was the practice of requiring different housing, education, and other services for people of color. It was made law several times in the 8th and 9th century America. At the time in 862 President Lincoln entertained the idea of opening channels for colonization in ex-slave countries such as Liberia and Haiti with $600,000 to help. The first steps toward official segregation came in the form of Black codes. These were laws passed throughout the South starting around 865, that dictated most aspects of black peoples lives, including where they could work and live. The codes also ensured black peoples availability for cheap labor after slavery was abolished. states in the article the article Segregation in the United States from the history.com editors. Soon after segregation was an official policy enforced by Southern laws called the Jim Crow laws named after a disparaging term for black people. Soon after everything began to be segregated such as
schools, jails, public parks, cemeteries, residential homes, and more. Fassforward to early june 966 Martin Luther King jr. an American Christian Minister and Civil Rights activist was a rising name in America at the time In efforts of being a major pillar and leader in America he formed a group called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dr. King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference shifted northward to Chicago and the two other most influential activist groups, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), had installed new, little-known leaders: Floyd McKissick and Stokely Carmichael. said from the article The Civil Rights movement before and after Martin Luther King Jr. The build up of civil injustice towards colored people was the trigger to plot out a mass march for the whole world to see ultimitaly in the end. A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin continues to organize around the idea of a mass march on Washington. They envisioned several large marches during the 940s but they were called off.