How Did The Civil Rights Movement Impact The Civil Rights Movement?

“As I look back on those days, it’s just like a dream. The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest and to let it be known wherever we go that all of us should be free and equal and have all opportunities that other should have” (Rosa Parks), a member of the N.A.A.C.P. and one who sparked the beginning of the boycott, declared this words with power in her fight against injustice. African Americans had experienced discrimination in many aspects of their lives. Since the civil war had ended, and slavery along with it, African Americans was no longer physical slaves, but they definitely were not equal citizens. During the movement a number of other racial groups, embarked a campaign to change this situation and
“The demands they made were simple: black passengers should be treated with courtesy, seating should be allowed on a first come basis, with white passengers sitting front to back to front and African American drivers should drive routes that primarily serviced African Americans” (www.ushistory.org). The boycott lasted eleven months, as the boycott was going on officials tried to sabotage the boycott in one of the protest king and Abernathy were arrested. Many things happened during the boycott violence began against the black. They attacked kings and Abernathy in the churches as well as in their homes, but besides all those things the boycott continued the African Americans wouldn’t give up without a fight. To this African Americans refused to ride the buses. For many years African Americans showed patience, but they got tired of always being pushed around and humiliated by others for being different. “On November 23, 1956, the supreme court ruled in favor of the MIA. Segregated busing was declared unconstitutional”