MOntgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott in December 1955 was symbolising the support to recently arrested Rosa Parks for not giving up her seat to a white man on a public bus. After Parks imprisonment, Martin Luther King lead the movement of the Montgomery bus boycott to speed the pace of civil rights reform. The Boycott involved encouraging any Black African-American supporting the Civil Rights to refrain from using the bus as public transport. Seeing as 75% of the bus' customers consisted of African Americans, this resulted in mass money-loss for the Montgomery Bus Association who were then forced to desegregate their busses.
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Selma to MOntgomery MarchOn 7 March 1965, 600 Civi Rights marchers headed East on the U.s. Route 80, their goal was to reach Montgomery from Selma. Sadly, they only got 6 blocks to Edmund Pettus Bridge away before state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. Two days later MArtin Luther King symbolically lead another march to the Bridge. Following that, the civil rights leaders sought state protection for a third march, another try at completing the Selma to Montgomery route. Protection was granted and on Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields.
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Greensboro sit-ins
Martin Luther King further supported his own idea of non-violent peaceful protests through leading a number of sit-ins in defiance to segregation laws and to push progression in the Civil Rights Laws. In Greensboro city, 4 African American college students went to get served in an all-white restaurant at Woolworth's on February 1st, 1960. They were denied food and service and were asked to leave. This direct action by Ezell Blair Jnr, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil sparked off the so-called sit-ins. When the boys returned to collect campus, they were regarded heroes amongst their peers, however not all black African American's supported their notions as it was heard that the dishwasher of the cafe, a Black African American, was infuriated and was shouting at them that they were 'idiots' and 'ignorant troublemakers'.
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