HIST 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Carpool, Moral Authority
25 Feb 2020
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Montgomery bus boycott work closely with head of naacp. Nixon wouldn"t be best person to lead the boycott (didn"t consider women like rosa. Him, like the members of core, came under the influence of non-violence strategy (influenced by gandhi: non-violence as a tactic. Montgomery are engaging in the kinds of things a good american citizen should do: if we are wrong, then the constitution is wrong , took moral high ground, spoke directly to audience, didn"t read a speech. Starting point of post brown v. board civil rights explosion. December 1956: sc found that the montgomery bus boycott was constitutional and the laws segregating busses in montgomery, alabama, were unconstitutional. I love this movie: powerful turning point in american history, brown decision sends this message to african americans. If citizens in communities around the south start trying to do anything like what happened in montgomery, they get things like watch out we know where you live .
