Get Smart in America

Throughout the history of blacks in America, there have been periods that could be called "civil rights movements." Though brief, these spurts offered guidance and a good background for crafting techniques and strategies to the leaders and organizers of America's modern Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. These spurts also lay the foundation that made the modern Civil Rights Movement conceivable, much less possible. The rights secured by these original historical moments of …

…the services of a black-owned taxi company that reduced fares for blacks boycotting the buses. The result was a Montgomery public transportation system nearing bankruptcy. Resistance and violence occurred, of course. King's house was bombed, and he and 89 others were indicted for conspiracy to conduct an illegal boycott. They were convicted and forced to pay $1,000 fines, but the convictions only enhanced their moral credibility. In 1956 a federal court ordered that the Bus system be desegregated