Asked by Bearflux Productions on Sep 28, 2024

With regard to its origins and organization,the Montgomery Bus Boycott

A) was orchestrated and organized by the NAACP.
B) stemmed from the arrest of Rosa Parks,though several other black women had been arrested for the same crime the same year.
C) was a secular movement which represented a break from earlier black protests in which churches had played central roles.
D) was the brainchild of Martin Luther King,Jr.,who inspired several women to court arrest by defying the law to set the boycott in motion.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

A pivotal civil rights protest in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, where African Americans refused to ride city buses to challenge racial segregation.

Rosa Parks

An African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955 became a symbol of the fight against racial segregation.

NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization founded in 1909 to fight for the civil rights of African Americans.

  • Ascertain the methods and philosophies that directed the development of the civil rights movement.
  • Comprehend the function of personal and collective actions in combating racial segregation and discrimination.