Can anyone find quotes that show the Montgomery bus boycott started the Modern Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 1

You are going to have a hard time finding quotes supporting this thesis, because the basic premise is wrong., The modenr civil rights did NOT begin with Montomery's bus boycott, it started the previous year with the case of Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka. If there had not been a Supreme Court case that began to break down segregation laws in school there would have been no movement to break down walls in public transportation in Alabama. Your basic premise (given to you by your teacher, I'm sure) is wrong. I would write MY paper disproving this faulty premise.

Answer 2

This is an open ended type issue that I would not want to be misleading in saying the Montgomery bus boycott started the modern civil rights movement. Theoretically, one could even go back to the founding of the NAACP in the early 1900s and beginning the civil rights movement in its successful legal challenges to Jim Crow. But as I indicated in my other answer my view is the Montgomery bus boycott would be a leading factor; one could call it the spark. Here are some quotes supporting this point by respected historians:

I. A. Newby, "The South: A History," declares about the modern black civil rights movement: "Their first important breakthrough came in Montgomery, Alabama, where in 1955-56 a boycott of the city bus system demonstrated [its] effectiveness...It also raised to prominence the most important leader the civil rights movement produced, Martin Luther King."

C. Vann Woodward, "The Strange Career of Jim Crow," 3d. ed.:
"Negroes brought to bear economic weapons of their own, most notably in the bus boycott in Montgomery."

Taylor Branch, "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963,": "For the first time they [Montgomery Improvement Association, black protesters] were on the winners side in a white man's forum..."

John A. Garraty, "The American Nation": "Finally, after more than a year, the Supreme Court ruled the segregation law was unconstitutional. Montgomery had to desegreate its public transportation system.

This success encouraged blacks elsewhere in the South to band together..."

I think there would few events in the Modern Civil Rights Movement that would have this strong of an impact.

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