Rosa Parks's arrest aboard a Montgomery bus in 1955 has become an iconic moment in the civil rights movement. News of Rosa Parks's arrest began to mobilize key community figures and existing black networks in Montgomery. An important voice in the black community in the age of segregation belonged to the small but influential black middle‐class. Nixon had considered protests against bus segregation before. Arrests that had been made on the buses in Montgomery for violating segregation laws over the previous ten months had begun to cement that idea. The Montgomery federal court struck down Alabama's segregation laws involving intrastate travel in a 2–1 decision holding that state laws requiring bus segregated seating were unconstitutional. The Montgomery bus boycott propelled Martin Luther King, Jr onto the national stage. After the boycott ended, three experienced civil rights activists worked with King to help form a new organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1955–7
The Civil Rights Movement ; 55-72
2020-01-15
18 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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