Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, became the center of what was a great moral victory for blacks in the South. It was an inevitable even in my thought because there is only so much abuse one can take from authority, especially when it was unfair. Out of this came many individuals who were not afraid to take a step past what was set, to do what they were told and forced not to do. The most notable man who would come out of this would be Dr. Martin Luther King Junior.
             In the midst of all the injustice of having to stand because a white person needed a seat came a woman who refused to give in to the rules. Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, refused to give her seat up for a white man, which in turn led to her arrest. A man by the name of E.D. Nixon, president of the NAACP at the time, helped get Mrs. Parks out of jail and saw this as an opportunity to end the segregation of buses in Montgomery.
             This began a small, but effective chain reaction to begin the bus boycott. Phone calls were made, supporters were recruited, and a new direct way to turn the tide of bus segregation had begun. Mrs. Parks was noted as the "perfect symbol" (Sitkoff 39) because of her appearance. She was dignified, intelligent, respectable, and married (Sitkoff 39). Nixon took the first steps to boycott the buses by calling around and getting support from his contacts. To his surprise, many of the people who were very reluctant to the idea of acting against such an institution such as public transportation vowed their support. So on December 5th, 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott began and would now become a great conflict in what was called the Cradle of the Confederacy. Martin Luther King Jr. would step out of the shadows as a new southerner to Montgomery and become the greatest force in the protest. He told the blacks to act with nonviolence, but with love. To act with unity because the only way support works are with the combination of all people...