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Comparative civil rights

...... As this boycott continued, other African-American leaders began to widen their efforts and in November of 1956, the Supreme Court ruled once again in their favor, for it determined that segregation on mass transit public carriers was unconstitutional which then forced the bus company to accept the demands of African-Americans in the city of Montgomery (Riches, 66). This decision also forced other mass transit companies to abandon their segregation policies and it was not long before the Civil Rights Movement took on additional power and influence
The success of the Montgomery boycott gave southern African-Americans a new confidence, a new weapon and a new leader in the form of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a
charismatic young Baptist minister who preached the gospel of non-violent resistance to all forms of racial discrimination. Before the boycott, the leadership of the Civil Rights Movement had come almost entirely from national organizations with headquarters in northern cities, notably the NAACP, the National Urban League and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); thus, Dr. King became the first southern black to work entirely within the South to emerge as a regional leader of the attack upon segregation......