Purpose Of The Montgomery Bus Boycott Respond To The Civil Rights Movement?

Even more so than the Bus Boycott, the members of this movement were very diverse, consisting of “young students, movement veterans, blacks and whites, men and women, northerners and southerners, and religious and secular activists.” They “did not possess a coherent identity, rather they were unified in their desired ends” (Luthi, 386). The movement relied upon the diversity of the members. The methods of the movement were to send buses full of both black and white people down into the south in a form of open protest to the segregated systems. This was a unification of black and white activists, and the activists wanted this to be visible to those opposing desegregation. “Their aim […] was to interrupt the prevalent discourse and practices by challenging the external constraints framed not just by the legal system but by the deeply rooted social customs of the Deep South ‘cramping’ the mobility of Black and other colored minorities” (Luthi, 390). The alternative transportation established in the Montgomery Bus Boycott was more to allow the boycott to continue for an extended period, while the purpose of this protest is to show off the desegregation of the buses entering the South. The Boycott sought to force desegregation through loss of business, while
One bus that entered Jackson Mississippi was stopped and the passengers were jailed for breaching the peace. The group refused to pay bail and chose instead to remain behind bars. Following soon after were three hundred additional Freedom Riders who flooded the city and were also jailed, overwhelming the system as a result (Luthi, 394-395). There were many other instances where buses were met by angry mobs and some buses were even destroyed. These events generated a large media attention and helped strengthen the