Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott Succeed?
- Created by: Juliet Cecilia Isherwood
- Created on: 13-10-13 14:51
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- Why was the Bus Boycott a success?
- gained unanimous support of ordinary black man and women
- chance to participate in activity that avoided danger
- display of unity and stamina
- showed they could organise a protest
- cooperate with each other with minimal white participation
- showed that peaceful protest was the answer
- went on for a year
- gave way to new leaders of the civil rights movement
- no black people on the buses or bus stops
- definance-not afraid
- took away fear
- people who used the buses a lot going to meetings
- white became sympathetic to boycott
- other state broke down segregation
- self-respect
- blacks got on buses sitting on front seats
- · 1956 superintendent of a local hospital told a reported that since the boycott began, the hospital had had fewer such patients
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