The Boycott Leads Freedom
"Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way”, said Rosa Parks, one of the most important women in American history. She played an important role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott which totally changed African Americans’ future. Focusing on the significance of Montgomery bus boycott, one cannot ignore the causes and the background of the boycott, the boycott itself and its impact on American society nowadays.
In the 1950s, as the United States faced the problems of segregation, especially the African Americans in Montgomery experienced the bitter life. In that time, Alabama law and its administration had worked to minimize the numbers of African American voters (King 29). This created difficulties for the African Americans in Alabama in protecting their rights because they lacked power in politics. As the biggest city of Alabama, Montgomery had a flourishing domestic service but lacked industries. It is the primary reason why most African Americans worked in
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Before the boycott, African Americans in Montgomery were down and out -- they worked in the worst working conditions with least wages and faced plenty of hardships to vote. But Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat to the whites was a loud voice for all the African Americans who suffered the pain of segregation, and grabbed the entire country’s attention to the African American civil rights movement. Out of her heroic stand, the civil rights movement made a great stride toward freedom and equality in American society. Eventually, their hard-won gains have brought us nearer to the ideals expressed by Martin Luther King …. the goal of bringing African American their born equality freedom back to