HIST-3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Montgomery Bus Boycott

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4 May 2018

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- Racial tension drove business away

1. Assumption that one race was superior to another had lost credibility

2. Holocaust

- Hitler made racial superiority seem bad

3. Civil rights came to be seen as moral issue

- Religion and morals

4. Television

- People could see violence

5. Increased economic and political clout of blacks

- More blacks can vote

6. Black initiative on grassroot scale

- In 1950s people got in streets

- People willing to go to jail

- People willing to be fire hosed

1. One thing that didn’t happen

- White churches didn’t defend segregation

- Sometimes spoke out against it

What were three major things I asked you to remember about the importance of the Montgomery Bus

Boycott?

1. Showed civil rights movement was grassroots movement

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