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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was an important episode in the U.S. civil rights movement. The campaign began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses was unconstitutional.
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The Montgomery bus boycott raised public awareness of which civil rights leader?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Did the case of Browder v Gayle begin the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
no, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was commenced before the browder v gayle case.
Is spontaneous combustion a good description of the events leading up to the Montgomery boycott?
Spontaneous combustion is not an accurate description of the events leading up to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott was a result of longstanding racial tensions and systemic discrimination in Montgomery, exacerbated by specific incidents like Rosa Parks' arrest in December 1955. It was a planned and organized response by the African American community, reflecting years of activism and mobilization rather than an unplanned or sudden eruption of anger. Thus, it was a calculated movement for civil rights rather than a spontaneous event.
What did the success of the Montgomery bus boycott lead to?
it lead to equality and civilization and non discrimination based upom your race..and now African Americans are allowed to sit wherever they want on public bus services.
The Montgomery bus boycott set a pattern for early civil rights activism in all what ways?
It focused on economic inequalities in Northern and Western cities
