The Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, became the center of what was a great moral victory for blacks in the South. It was an inevitable even in my thought because there is only so much abuse one can take from authority, especially when it was unfair. Out of this came many individuals who were not afraid to take a step past what was set, to do what they were told and forced not to do. The …

…The confidence that they indeed had the power to make a change. Martin Luther King Jr. would come out of this as the great hero. The one who stood for what was right and what would ultimately come out as victorious. This was a struggle that brought the black community together. They learned how to overcome oppression, fear, and downfall. Their weaknesses were set aside and their power displayed. A new South had been created.