Montgomery Bus Boycott
During the first half of the twentieth century segregation was the way of life in the south. It was an excepted, and even though it was morally wrong, it still went on as if there was nothing wrong at all. African-Americans were treated as if they were a somehow sub-human, they were treated because of the color of their skin that somehow, someway they were different.In the south it was almost impossible to find any aspect of life that was not segregated. The schools were segregated and the restaurants were segregated. There was "Colored Only" bathrooms, and "Colored Only" drinking fountains and segregation was definitely present in public transportation.Martin Luther King Jr. could not have said it better when he addressed the massive crowd at the first meeting of Montgomery Improvement Association and said, " . . . we are here, we are here because we are tired now."1 On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks, a seamstress who lived in Montgomery, Al, refused to give her seat up to a white man who had nowhere to sit on the bus. Because she would not move to the back of the bus, she was arrested for violating the Alabama bus segregation laws. Rosa was thrown in jail and fined fourteen dollars.
startling noise that rolled on and on, like a wave that refused to break. A just as important thing that came from the boycott as the bus integration is the fact that the integration was caused by massive protest. So my even say they are not looked at the same as any other in the south. " This pamphlet offered advice and instructions on how to use passive resistance and massive non-violent resistance against segregation. Again Martin Luther King's name was linked to the bus boycott in national headlines. He had been in India learning about Gandhi's teachings of non-violence. was elected as the president of this new organization. A, much of the attention given to the boycott was focused on M. The SCLC went on to be one of the strongest organizations in the Civil Rights Movement.
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