each other. The American civil rights movement began a long time ago, as early

as the seventeenth century, with blacks and whites all protesting slavery

together. The peak of the civil rights movement came in the 1950's starting

with the successful bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama. The civil rights

movement was lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached nonviolence and

"Love your enemies, we do not mean to love them as a friend or intimate. We

mean what the Greeks called agape-a disinterested love for all mankind. This

love is our regulating ideal and beloved community our ultimate goal. As we

struggle here in Montgomery, we are cognizant that we have cosmic companionship

and that the universe bends toward justice. We are moving from the black night

of segregation to the bright daybreak of joy, from the midnight of Egyptian

captivity to the glittering light of Canaan freedom"

In the Cradle of the Confederacy, life for the white and the colored

citizens was completely segregated. Segregated schools, restaurants, public

water fountains, amusement parks, and city buses

descied whether or not the boycott should continue. Throughout the church

ll go along with you Mr. Nixon. ? Nixon, at home was making a list of black ministers in Montgomery, who

boycott of Baton Rouge's buses. By the end of the day, Louisiana's attorney

that Parks women ?on the bus to stir things up and cause trouble. The

they wouldn't tell him why she had been arrested. So they thought that if Cliff

drivers did not have to change the seating arrangements on the buses.

the sun. City police were on the watch for black "goon squads?that would keep

life. It took Doctor King fifteen minuets to park his car and make his way to

ride the buses to work, to schools, or anywhere on Monday... ? Thousands of the anonymous leaflets were passed secretly through

Monday because he feared that there was no time to waste, he also wanted the

Crenshaw frantically denied that the bus drivers were regularly discourteous to

he was a master speaker, also Dr. King was new in town.

the principle lead to the birth of the most influential and important case of

Robinson then proceeded to call the leaders of the Women's Political Council,

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