Martin Luther King Junior's Speech Ending The Montgomery Bus Boycott
In Martin Luther King Junior’s “Speech Ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott”, he describes the actions and protest that the citizens of Montgomery participated to create the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott began when Rosa Parks sat in the front of a bus after a long day of work and was ordered to yield her seat to a white citizen. She respectfully refused and was then arrested do to the unjust laws about segregation on public transportation. In response to her arrest, citizens of the black community assembled under Martin Luther King Jr.’s direction and boycotted the public bus systems for a little over a year. These citizens fought for equality and justice and refused to back down. This speech is a reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling