How did Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Montgomery Bus Boycott started when Rosa park refused to move when, driver ordered. It was December 1, 1995 when Rosa Park met with the same driver that she met 12 years ago, who left Rosa Park in the rain after she paided her fare. However this time, she had borded and after some station, bus got crowded, especially with whites. So driver ordered blacks to give up their seats to whites, but Rosa Park refused to move, and got arrested.
She said " I wasn't frightened at all...I don't know why I wasn't, but I did not felt afraid. I decided that I would have to know once and once for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen, even in Montgomery, Alabama." She got released by help of Edward D. Nixon, who was leasing the movement of desegregation of public faculties (president of NAACP).
She said " I wasn't frightened at all...I don't know why I wasn't, but I did not felt afraid. I decided that I would have to know once and once for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen, even in Montgomery, Alabama." She got released by help of Edward D. Nixon, who was leasing the movement of desegregation of public faculties (president of NAACP).
How could Montgomery Bus Boycott end?
The bus boycott could be only ended when the Supreme Court made decision that separation of the people of different races in the buses was action or law that goes against the US rule.
How did Martin Luther King. Jr led the Movement?
Martin Luther King. Jr led the movement with peaceful forms of protest. But that often met with cruel threats, arrests, beating, and worse. King emphasized how important it was that Civil Rights Movement's situation did not become the level of separation and fighting against. He said "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on high plane of dignity and disciplines."
How did Civil Rights Movement end?
Civil Rights Movement ended in 1968. It was the same year as Martin Luther King. Jr died at age of 39. President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The 1964 Civil Rights Act the President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed on April 11, 1968, especially prohibited discrimination in voting, education, and the use of public faculties. From Civil Rights Act different types of discrimination stopped, but it did not prevent the rising tide of militance among blacks.
President Johnson
After Civil Rights Movement
After Civil Rights Movement, it helped confront the problem that America was not living up to statement "all men are created equal." Even after the Civil Rights Movement there was still discrimination in education, our social environment, and in work place, and still there is some discrimination in our surroundings.
