... , 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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... the religious views of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman. On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Birmingham bus, setting off a chain of events that catapulted King to world fame. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to abide by one of Montgomery's laws ... intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan, police harassment, and bombings, the success of the boycott was apparent when King and several others boarded a public bus in front of King's home on December 21, 1956. While in Atlanta, five bombs went off at parsonages and churches in Montgomery in the ... From...

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