Imagine going day to day having to fight for your rights to do simple everyday things normally just because the color of your skin is not white. Well, that is exactly what happened in the 1960’s for African Americans throughout the United States. Instead of physically fighting, desegregationists (both blacks and whites), peacefully took their stand by participating in protests to trying and influence the US government and make a permanent change to our civil rights as we know them today. These protests often consisted of large groups of people voicing their thoughts, but police and other authorities were not the biggest fans of this. Despite the negative consequences of peaceful protests, they were overall a positive impact toward the civil
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In the article “Montgomery Bus Boycott” by the A&E History Channel it is explained that in Montgomery, Alabama, along with many other cities, it was required that blacks sit in the back of the bus and whites sit in that front and if someone who was white came on the bus and the “white section” was filled up someone in the first row of the “black section” would be asked to move into a different seat so the white person can sit there. Well, that is exactly what happened to Rosa Parks on December first 1955. She was on her way home from her seamstress job when the front half of the bus became full and she was asked to yield to a new white passenger. Parks refused to move from her seat with a simple and consistent, “No.”. Her refusal resulted in her arrest which caused an uproar in the African American community and the start of a historical boycott known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Many people, not just blacks, chose to find other ways to get around. The buses were not getting as much profit and many downtown shops in Montgomery were losing income and started closing because customers had no way to get downtown to buy things from these shops. Even though taking the busses would have been easier for them to go buy their necessities, the persistence of the black community and their desire for equality caused a very notable change in the United States history (History.com
In the article “Montgomery Bus Boycott” by the A&E History Channel it is explained that in Montgomery, Alabama, along with many other cities, it was required that blacks sit in the back of the bus and whites sit in that front and if someone who was white came on the bus and the “white section” was filled up someone in the first row of the “black section” would be asked to move into a different seat so the white person can sit there. Well, that is exactly what happened to Rosa Parks on December first 1955. She was on her way home from her seamstress job when the front half of the bus became full and she was asked to yield to a new white passenger. Parks refused to move from her seat with a simple and consistent, “No.”. Her refusal resulted in her arrest which caused an uproar in the African American community and the start of a historical boycott known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Many people, not just blacks, chose to find other ways to get around. The buses were not getting as much profit and many downtown shops in Montgomery were losing income and started closing because customers had no way to get downtown to buy things from these shops. Even though taking the busses would have been easier for them to go buy their necessities, the persistence of the black community and their desire for equality caused a very notable change in the United States history (History.com