e opposed to segregation. Many people were opposed to King's ideas that fighting should only be done in a nonviolent way. People who felt this way, believed in the slogan "Black Power", which meant that blacks should be able to obtain the rights that would have been theirs in the first place by any means necessary – even if they had to resort to violence.
             In Montgomery and in many other cities, blacks faced blatant discrimination. There were no black bus drivers and many of the white bus drivers treated the black passengers rudely. They would often refer to black passengers as "niggers", "black cows", and "black apes". Often, black people were forced to pay their fare at the front of the bus and then get off and reboard the bus from the back doors. Black people were forced to sit at the back of public buses and give up their seats to white people. When Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat, she was sent to jail, leading the black community to take action and start a boycott. The boycott not only represented this isolated event, but many inequalities the blacks had to deal with everyday as well. There were state laws which made it mandatory to have separate schools, parks, playgrounds, restaurants, hotels, theatres, and restrooms. Even water fountains were labeled 'white' or 'coloured'. The boycott symbolized the beginning of the blacks' struggle for equality. It was the first time that outward nonviolence measures against segregation actually worked. Almost one hundred percent of the black residents of Montgomery participated in the boycott, lasting for almost a year.
             Many white people did not expect such a strong, united, awareness to take place after this incident. King said, "White people in the South may never fully know the extent to which Negroes defended themselves and protected their jobs – and in many cases, thei...