History Of The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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America had gone through so many things when the Montgomery Bus Boycott was going on. They just had gone through the Vietnam War, which was hard for America to overcome. America was at one time almost in all out nuclear war with Russia, better known as the cold war. But now you have blacks fighting for the same rights that the whites had. They were breaking laws, but yet they were not using any violence while breaking these laws, because their leader Martin Luther King Jr. knew that they could not get what they wanted if they were all thrown in jail. But not only where the blacks fighting for equal rights but some certain white people where fighting for them as well. So at this point America was in the time of change.

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