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What did the Montgomery Bus Boycott teach civil rights activists in Montgomery and elsewhere?
One person could make a difference.
Segregation laws could be changed.
Nonviolent resistance could inspire a violent response.
Nonviolent resistance could succeed in ending segregation.
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Nonviolent resistance could succeed in ending segregation.
The 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott — sparked by Rosa Parks but sustained by mass, nonviolent protest, legal action (Browder v. Gayle), and effective organization (including Martin Luther King Jr.) — forced the city to desegregate its buses and showed activists that disciplined, nonviolent mass action could produce real, legal change.
The 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott — sparked by Rosa Parks but sustained by mass, nonviolent protest, legal action (Browder v. Gayle), and effective organization (including Martin Luther King Jr.) — forced the city to desegregate its buses and showed activists that disciplined, nonviolent mass action could produce real, legal change.
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