Bus Boycott
The bus boycott first started when Rosa Parks decided to sit in a white-only seat and refused to get out when a white man told her to get out. About a day after Rosa Parks was arrested one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s best friends, E.D. Nixon came up with the idea to boycott buses. After a week of great success with their boycott they realized they needed a leader. As a result if this need they chose Martin Luther King Jr. as their leader for the boycott. After roughly a year of boycotting bus segregation was outlawed throughout America.
Death Threats and Assaults
Although many people did like Martin Luther King he was often shown the extreme amount of people who had extreme hatred towards him. Martin received hundreds of death threats a week but only a few of those threats came true. Such as the time when Martin’s house was bombed just before bus segregation was over on January 30, 1956. He was over all attacked four times, and arrested 20 times.
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