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This 5 page paper provides an in depth study of this infamous event in the civil rights movement. Key players such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. are discussed. Also, President Clinton's memory of the 1955 event, as well as his honoring of Parks long after the boycott, are duly noted. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. This all happened several years before the so-called civil rights movement would be in full swing. The civil rights era is generally thought to
go from 1958 to 1968, but the power of the movement actually began in the early to mid-1950s. Thus, the eruption of protest against the unfairness in the society came
at a time when the country was in an arms race. During the 1950s, it was feared that Russia, which was strong at the time, would become too powerful
and there was a sort of witch hunt in the United States for anyone spouting a communist ideology. This was known as the McCarthy era and also erupted in the
context of the cold war with Russia. Yet, despite the climate, black people began to protest against the society that had not provided them with the same privileges as their
white counterparts. Before the Montgomery boycott, there was Brown. The Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 showed that the litigation strategy of the NAACP could undermine
legal foundations of southern segregationist practices; but even after the decision was made, black activism was necessary in order to put it into effect (Foner and Garraty, 1991). For
example, a 1964 article told of the fight by NAACP attorneys against the state of Virginia which was making payments to a school district that took actions to avoid integration
("NAACP," 1964). Even long after 1954, there were many attempts at noncompliance. And while the activists in the 1950s did target school segregation as a hot issue, there erupted an
increasingly massive and militant social movement which sought a broad variety of social changes (Foner and Garraty, 1991). In the initial phase of the black protest activity in the
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