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The Montgomery Bus Boycott, And The Greensboro Sit-In

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The topic of racism is truly disgusting and cruel. During the late 1800s through the 1900s, the world was one-sided, benefitting the lives of white people. African Americans had to spend their lives fighting for their rights while being threatened and attacked by ferocious racists. However, with deliberate perseverance and consistent boycotts, Civil Rights activists were able to obliterate racism and segregation one “brick” at a time. There were numerous moments when Civil Rights activists came together to fight against racism, but the three most impactful groupings were the March on Washington, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Greensboro sit-in. These boycotts changed the lives of African Americans all around the world and helped take down …show more content…

Rosa Parks was exceptionally brave when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus. Following this, she was wrongfully arrested because the bus was extremely segregated and many other Civil Rights activists were infuriated by it, including Martin Luther King Jr.. King was a leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and held a meeting to assess the unfair situation. Furthermore, King sent out a message to the African American community about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They collectively agreed to boycott the bus station and refused to take the bus for a whole day. This interfered with many African Americans' work schedules and lifestyles since many of them used the bus on a daily basis. However, benefits came out of this boycott. The Montgomery Bus station lost money and the boycott led the way for future boycotts in the Civil Rights Movement. Although the Montgomery Bus Boycott did not completely destroy the “brick” of bus segregation, it made future boycotts familiar and even more powerful. Last, but most certainly not least, the Greensboro sit-in is the third boycott that civil rights activists took part in to stop

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This boycott had thousands go African Americans refusing to get up when told to move for a white person. The boycott ended on December 21, 1956 after Montgomery buses were to be integrated. The symbol of change for African American moods was the sit-in movement. February 1, 1960, four freshman students were declined lunch and asked to leave. This protest started the sit-ins movement with hundreds of people.

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If the employee or worker refused, then the protester did not leave until they got what they ordered, or until they were arrested. Bus boycotts, which originated from Rosa Parks, consisted of the protesters not riding the buses to where they had to go, in exchange for a first-come, first-seated policy, desegregated seating, and black bus drivers. For a long time, this peaceful tactic was not getting any results. The author reports, “Although African Americans represented at least 75 percent of Montgomery’s bus ridership, the city resisted complying with the MIA’s demands”(“Montgomery Bus Boycott”, 2017). In spite of the fact that the majority of the bus riders were blacks, the busing systems systems did not adhere to these demands until later.

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An example of what the Montgomery bus boycott meant to African Americans is shown when a black cook after telling her boss that she would have no part of it still participated in the event. This showed that they were willing to risk everything to get their rights.(king 19) The reason that this whole boycott started was because of a brave women named rosa Parks. She refused to give up her seat to a white person which caused her to be arrested. Some people said she wouldn’t give up her seat because she was tired, but the truth is that she had a history of being a civil rights activist.(Lapsanky-Werner

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