Montgomery Bus Boycott. This paper is about the bus boycoot concentrating on Martin L. King.

The Montgomery bus boycott changed the way people lived and reacted to each other. The American civil rights movement began a long time ago, as early as the seventeenth century, with blacks and whites all protesting slavery together. The peak of the civil rights movement came in the 1950's starting with the successful bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama. The civil rights movement was lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached nonviolence and love …showed first 75 words of 5150 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5150 total…don't see how we can do it within the law. If it were legal I would be the first to go along with it, but it just isn't legal. The only way that it can be done is to change the segregation laws. " Commissioner Clyde Sellers who was staunchly opposed to segregation was not about to compromise. Crenshaw did not help the MIA in stating that "If we granted the Negroes these demands, they would