The Montgomery Bus Boycott proved that the laws of Alabama and Montgomery regarding segregation on buses unconstitutional. This ruling was given by the United States Supreme Court. This was a big decision regarding the abolition of discrimination based of race and color of skin. This boycott lasted from 5th December 1955 to 21st December 1956. <span />
Plessy was a citizen who claimed to be seventh eights Caucasian and only one eighth Black. He was imprisoned and trial in a criminal court after an incident that took place while in New Orleans, in 1896, when he tried to board a car designated for hite people. He was denied a seat in the car for white people and urged to take a seat in the car for black people. As Plessy refused on the basis of his predominantly Caucasian race, the train staff arrested him, and then he was put in the parish jail. He was charged with criminal counts, but Plessy requested his case to be presented to the Supreme Court for he deemed there had been violations of the Thirteen and Fourteenth Amendments (abolition of slavery and equal treatment).
The Supreme Court's opinion stated that the treatment based on "equal but separated" did not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment, for this amendment only protected citizens from being enslaved or forced to involuntary servitude, and no conflict was found with the Fourteenth Amendment since it enforced equality, but it did not specify under which terms. Therefore, the decision of the Supreme Court supported the doctrine "equal but separate" and segregation as well.
Explanation :
In simple words, The most popular type of anti-slavery resistance was "daily operations resistance." Slave resistance took many forms, including breaking equipment, feigning injury, staging sluggishness, and committing acts of arson as well as sabotage. One form of resistance was fleeing.
Thus, their resistance was operating at a very personal level. Although, the slavers took some strict actions against it, such as, shooting the resistance candidate on the stop just to make a point of fear.
Social limitations
African discriminated for everything. They are not allowed to enter specific restaurants, they are forbidden to use public restroom, not allowed to enter theatre, etc
Political Limitations
Back then, their representative in the government is close to non existent
Economic limitations
Most companies only want to hire them for low-class hard labor with low pay. Not only that, it really hard for them to own a property during that period
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A. People read, saw, and heard only what the government desired.
C. Workers were forced to take up farming.
