Evaluate the Significance of the Bus Boycott to the Civil Rights Movement

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Extended responses

b) Evaluate the significance of one of the following in the civil rights movement

2. The bus boycott

The events and outcomes of the bus boycott are significant in assistance to the civil rights movement. It was the introduction of direct action and non violence, the beginning of Martin Luther's campaign in the movement and the achievements.

The boycott began on the 1st December 1955 with Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama, with Rosa Parks. She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man on demand. She was arrested and imprisoned for violating the law. This was the beginning of the campaign of non-violence. In protest to Parks' arrest, the African American community, who comprised 75% of bus users in Montgomery, began what became a 382-day boycott of the city's buses. They protested for recognition of their equal rights to bus seats. There was an organisation formed to direct the bus boycott, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). A young Baptist minister, working in Montgomery, took on the important role as