USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
*Helped start the modern Civil Rights Movement*Lasted for more than a year, costing the bus company a lot of money*Led to the US Supreme Courts decision to outlaw segregation on public transportion
A
March on Washington
B
Cuban Missile Crisis
C
Montgomery Bus Boycott
D
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister who endorsed nonviolent civil disobedience, emerged as leader of the Boycott. Following a November 1956 ruling by the Supreme Court that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, the bus boycott ended successfully. It had lasted 381 days.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lasting 381 days, the Montgomery Bus Boycott resulted in the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional. A significant play towards civil rights and transit equity, the Montgomery Bus Boycott helped eliminate early barriers to transportation access.

Detailed explanation-3: –His bus company was reliant on African-American patrons. This helped protesters win the Montgomery bus boycott.-The bus company finally had to give in because it could no longer rely solely on white passengers. The demonstrators were also helped by their deep sense of unity and determination.

Detailed explanation-4: -Martin Luther King Jr. was the first president of the Mongomery Improvement Association, which organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. This began a chain reaction of similar boycotts throughout the South. In 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing.

Detailed explanation-5: -Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act. In December 1955 NAACP activist Rosa Parks’s impromptu refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a sustained bus boycott that inspired mass protests elsewhere to speed the pace of civil rights reform.

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