1. Medger Evers: A Time of Change, Black Civil Rights Movement
Their demands were that Black passengers should be treated with respect and courtesy, seating should be apportioned on a first-come-first-serve basis with white passengers sitting from front to back and black passengers from back to front. ... The Montgomery Bus Boycott was significant on several fronts. First, it is widely regarded as the earliest mass protest on behalf of civil rights in the U.S., setting the stage for additional large scale actions outside the court system to bring about fair treatment for African Americans. ...
Racially threatened by them taking their places, many whites bestowed stereotypes on blacks that were quickly learned and remembered when blacks were not only applying for jobs, but also remembered in the home front. ... Refusing to work for Jones, this white woman named Madge stages a scene in which she pretends to be raped by Jones.# Blacks, being stereotyped as rapists, were looked down upon. ...
Some people are born to be certain things in life. Some are born to be doctors, some are born to be lawyers, some perhaps engineers or teachers. Some altogether different like Martin Luther King Jr. are born to be revolutionary leaders. Destined to fill the void of support for a race of people, who having been kicked in the teeth for so many years, were finally willing to rid their lives of oppression and to stand up and be counted, not just in the eyes of the law, but in the hearts of the people. It was never going to be easy. ...
