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. ...

• Word Count: 1709
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1278
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The civil rights movement was like a war conducted on many fronts. ... Civil rights movements' means of protestation were at the early stages influenced by 'civil disobedience', that is to say freedom rides and sit-in's in order to directly challenge the injustice of segregationist laws. ...

• Word Count: 1999
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate