1. Meanwhile people who live on the estate have continued to criticise the threatened bus boycott. 2. And he was a founding officer of the African National Youth League, which confronted the white rulers of that day by provoking a bus boycott. 3. But Parks started a movement that transformed the segregated South, starting with the bus boycott. 4. Groups of men gathered around huge television screens erected on the lawn when Rosa Parks, the woman who sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, spoke. 5. He helped to organize the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., and to persuade Martin Luther King Jr. to lead it. 6. Her act became the symbol for a bus boycott led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy. 7. His use of nonviolent tactics during bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins transformed the position of blacks in American society. 8. In private, Marshall also disparaged King and opposed most demonstrations -- even the Montgomery bus boycott and the lunch counter sit-ins -- as senseless invitations to violence. 9. Parks was arrested, sparking a lengthy bus boycott by black passengers that significantly advanced the civil rights movement in the South. 10. Parks had been secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP for more than a decade at the time of the bus boycott. |