... after reading Gandhi, I saw how utterly mistaken I was. On December 5, 1955, after a Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks refused to comply with Montgomery's segregation policy on buses, the Black residents launched a bus boycott and elected King president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association. The boycott continued throughout 1956 and King gained a national prominence for his role in the campaign. In December ... 1956 the U.S. Supreme Court declared by 9 to 0 ruling Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional and Montgomery buses were desegregated. The roots of the bus boy...

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... , and non-co-operation. He firmly believed that non-violence must be lived in day to day life. Gandhi worshiped God through the service of man and looked upon all human beings as but the manifestations of God himself. Montgomery's black community had longstanding grievances about the mistreatment ... of blacks on city buses. Many white bus drivers treated blacks rudely, often cursing them and humiliating them by enforcing the city's segregation laws, which forced black riders to sit in ... the back of buses and give up their seats to white passengers on crowded buses. The Montgomery bus...

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