ople." (Brandt 3) It urged blacks to resist their enemies through love rather than hate and retaliation.
             Certainly her case was not a unique. African Americans had been arrested for disobeying the segregation laws many times before. However, in 1954 the Supreme Court had made an important decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, that detained that educational segregation was naturally illegal. The decision encouraged African Americans to fight more boldly for the end of racial segregation in every area of American life. Thus, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) officials and Montgomery church leaders decided that Parks' arrest could provide the necessary motivation for a successful bus boycott. They asked Montgomery's African-American riders-who comprised over 70 percent of the bus comp
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