The civil rights movement was a mass movement and protest for blacks against racial discrimination to increase equal rights in the United States that occurred for the most part amid the 1960s. However, during the 1950s, there was minimal reasonable advance made in civil rights, but it was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, an example of non-violent direct action and self-determination, that created a defining moment for social equality; it indicated that African Americans were not kidding, and were willing to put everything on the line to vindicate their argument of gaining social equality.
A non-violent direct action is based on the rule that violence is never the answer to accomplish objectives. It is any type of direct activity that does not depend …show more content…
Rather than a lower class, rough, sloppy extraordinary progressives, they saw a gathering of stately, standard individuals, who had sorted out themselves productively, joined together, were detached, utilizing peacefulness and getting people’s attention. On December 1st, 1955, an African American woman, Rosa Parks, got on a public bus and sat on the first row of the black section. As more people, black and white, started to come in, there came a point where there were no more seats left and a white man was left standing. The bus driver signaled Rosa Parks to move, but she refused. Consequently, she was arrested for infringing the city’s racial isolation laws by declining to surrender her seat on a public bus to a white man. She was then imprisoned and charged for violating a segregation law. This further originated in the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott and brought an early triumph for the Civil Rights development. Another example of non-violent direct action includes the Greensboro Sit-Ins which occurred on February 1st, 1960. On this date, the fight for civil rights began a new period because of four black students from North Carolina …show more content…
Up to that day, black people were dependent on what the court, Congress, and legislature did or did not allow them to do. However, this time, the black community determined it truly did not make a difference what they said, so they brought fate into their own hands, and that was the origin of self-determination. Self-determination refers to the process by which one has a say on what one says or on the way one acts. Hence, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Greensboro Sit-Ins are prominent examples that exhibit black nationalism and black power at its greatest. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a pivotal moment in history which precipitated a change in the black and white communities thanks to Rosa Parks. Her arrest drove the black community of the city to protest about the bus system, a protest led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. With this protest, black citizens of Montgomery did not mean to end segregation, they simply needed rearrangements to be made in the public transport so that it would be based on a first come, first served basis instead of black people having to give up their seats for whites, or to even have them drive as a job would have been an advance. Since they did not get what they wanted, they started to stop using the public transport and started getting to places by foot. This meant a decrease in the amount of
A non-violent direct action is based on the rule that violence is never the answer to accomplish objectives. It is any type of direct activity that does not depend …show more content…
Rather than a lower class, rough, sloppy extraordinary progressives, they saw a gathering of stately, standard individuals, who had sorted out themselves productively, joined together, were detached, utilizing peacefulness and getting people’s attention. On December 1st, 1955, an African American woman, Rosa Parks, got on a public bus and sat on the first row of the black section. As more people, black and white, started to come in, there came a point where there were no more seats left and a white man was left standing. The bus driver signaled Rosa Parks to move, but she refused. Consequently, she was arrested for infringing the city’s racial isolation laws by declining to surrender her seat on a public bus to a white man. She was then imprisoned and charged for violating a segregation law. This further originated in the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott and brought an early triumph for the Civil Rights development. Another example of non-violent direct action includes the Greensboro Sit-Ins which occurred on February 1st, 1960. On this date, the fight for civil rights began a new period because of four black students from North Carolina …show more content…
Up to that day, black people were dependent on what the court, Congress, and legislature did or did not allow them to do. However, this time, the black community determined it truly did not make a difference what they said, so they brought fate into their own hands, and that was the origin of self-determination. Self-determination refers to the process by which one has a say on what one says or on the way one acts. Hence, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Greensboro Sit-Ins are prominent examples that exhibit black nationalism and black power at its greatest. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a pivotal moment in history which precipitated a change in the black and white communities thanks to Rosa Parks. Her arrest drove the black community of the city to protest about the bus system, a protest led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. With this protest, black citizens of Montgomery did not mean to end segregation, they simply needed rearrangements to be made in the public transport so that it would be based on a first come, first served basis instead of black people having to give up their seats for whites, or to even have them drive as a job would have been an advance. Since they did not get what they wanted, they started to stop using the public transport and started getting to places by foot. This meant a decrease in the amount of