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Essay heading: evaluate the significance of the bus boycott to the civil rights movement
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Blacks waiting for transport were threatened with charges of loitering and various other charges in order to keep the whites in power. Many blacks wanted to retaliate, they could not just allow for whites to threaten them, but King refused to allow this. He told them "We believe in law and order? We must love our white brothers no matter what they do to us"...
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Many blacks wanted to retaliate, they could not just allow for whites to threaten them, but King refused to allow this. He told them "We believe in law and order? We must love our white brothers no matter what they do to us". The Boycott continued throughout 1956 King and 88 others were arrested, charged and convicted of ?conspiracy to interfere with normal business'...
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