Politics and the power of the people have been around probably since civilization started. There is no wonder that politics and powerful people were involved in the "massive resistance". They both had a positive and negative impact on the civil rights of the African Americans. The African Americans made some success in the 1940's of receiving some of those civil right only to be slapped in the face with the resistance they experience starting in 1950's.
The "massive resistance" was caused by the southern segregationist seeing the African Americans as an inferior race. # "Massive resistance" covers many aspesic of the African Americans lives. The most common ones you hear of are the bus and school segregation. A few more were segregated drinking fountains; white nurses not allow to work on African American, restaurants, amateur baseball, and textbooks. # When the African Americans went against the state rights they were confronted with imprisonment, violence, and other demeaning treatment by the segregationist as well as the local government.
A bus boycott all started when Rosa Parks refused to sit in the African American area of the bus. She was then arrested and the bus boycott was started and led by Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy. # The cities official tired of the boycott, agreed to integrate the buses. This was a crucial victory for the civil rights movement. The African Americans received inferior education because they were bused to all black schools. NAACP's counsel Thurgood Marshall concluded that segregation violated the citizenship rights guaranteed by the 14th amendment. He took it to the supreme courts and the Plessy versus Ferguson ruling overturned. The courts now stated that segregation was a violation of the 14th amendment. The whites still refused to ingrated the white schools with African Americans. In Little Rock Arkansas, the Governor went as far as to call in the National Guard to keep the...