The Black Community's Contribution To The Civil Rights Movement

As the boycott was put into action, the African Americans joined forces to bring an end to segregation. The black people did many things to support the protest against segregation, however, the reaction of some of the white people induced many obstacles for the black people. The black community did not use violence to protest bus segregation for they understood violence was not going to solve their problems, so they conducted a non-violent protest. The idea of non-violent protesting meant they simply stopped using the bus system to show that they were not going to allow the white community, the government, or the bus system to continue to treat them unfairly. A black woman, Jo Ann Robinson, explained “If Negroes did not ride the buses, they

The outcome of the boycott resulted in many new developments and changed the course of history forever. The protest began to take action when, “after 381 days of boycotting the busses they went to the Supreme Court to prove that it was not legal to segregate blacks from whites on public transportation,” (Hisotry.com Staff). It took time , but eventually, the Supreme Court agreed with the black community and ruled that it was indeed unconstitutional to separate people based on their race. This step had huge significance to the boycott and to our history, leading us into a new age of equality. As a result of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the blacks, all people, both white and black, knew it was going to change their way of life forever.The Montgomery Bus Boycott started a revolution of changes in the way people think, act, and live in a society as a whole. In many opinions, the boycott became a resolution to some of the biggest worldly problems as Joseph Lowery stated, ‘I think the Montgomery Bus Boycott initiated an era of self-determination,” (Lowery). This concept was so eloquent that this victory inspired blacks to challenge other segregation issues to the Supreme Court, for the boycott had ended something horrible, and commenced something wonderful. The black community accomplished so much just by starting the act of standing up for what they knew was right and wrong. For in the inspiration and words of Martin Luther King Jr., “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice,” (King). The improved rights of black people today, stand as proof of how things have changed since this time. They stopped segregation in the bus system, which gave the black community the chance to stop segregation in other public establishments and society. The black community of Montgomery became a prominent example of how having a non-violent