The Ottoman Empire. When one European power annexed a part of its crumbling power, it caused concern that they might get it all. The other European powers wanted a chance at picking it apart too.
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A social division in a traditional society
Although Parks was not the first resident of Montgomery to refuse to give up her seat to a white passenger, local civil rights leaders decided to capitalize on her arrest as a chance to challenge local segregation laws. ... The boycott was so successful that local civil rights leaders decided to extend it indefinitely.
The boycott garnered a great deal of publicity in the national press, and King became well known throughout the country. The success in Montgomery inspired other African American communities in the South to protest racial discrimination and galvanized the direct nonviolent resistance phase of the ci