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27.09.2021 • 
History

A)What impression does the author give about the role of the Montgomery Improvement Association in the Bus Boycott? You must use extract A to explain your answer (6 marks)

From an African American Website

The MIA was the first of its kind, an organisation based in the Deep South that specifically adopted a direct action tactic (a bus boycott) to challenge racial discrimination. The MIA was also the first predominantly black civil rights organisation to operate independently of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).

Although the MIA was not the catalyst to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, it played a significant role in the success of the protest and the desegregation of the buses a year later. The MIA took responsibility for maintaining the boycott and the morale of the protesters and was in charge of providing alternative transportation for those who refused to ride the buses, its carpools formed an effective means of transport for the most impoverished black employees who could not walk to work to continue their employment

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