Two local Baptist ministers, Martin Luther King Jr .and Ralph Abernathy, led a year on a nonviolent boycott of the bus system that eventually force the bus company to desegregate its buses. Similar protest actions soon spread to other communities in south, King became the leading vice of the civil rights movement. Civil rights , in 1960 a group pf black college students in Greensboro , N.N insisted on being served a meal at a segregated lunch counter , this was one of the first of the movement many prominent civil rights . By September of that year some 70,000 students both black and white were thought to have participant in the movement, 3,600 of the participation were arrested for their participation. The civil rights movement won several important legal victories, July 2 Johnson signed the civil rights act in to
Two local Baptist ministers, Martin Luther King Jr .and Ralph Abernathy, led a year on a nonviolent boycott of the bus system that eventually force the bus company to desegregate its buses. Similar protest actions soon spread to other communities in south, King became the leading vice of the civil rights movement. Civil rights , in 1960 a group pf black college students in Greensboro , N.N insisted on being served a meal at a segregated lunch counter , this was one of the first of the movement many prominent civil rights . By September of that year some 70,000 students both black and white were thought to have participant in the movement, 3,600 of the participation were arrested for their participation. The civil rights movement won several important legal victories, July 2 Johnson signed the civil rights act in to