In Montgomery, Alabama, a bus boycott ended in a victory for African Americans. The Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's segregation laws were unconstitutional. During the boycott a young African American Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, Jr. became famous. During the long competition he advised African Americans to avoid violence whatever was seriously provoked by whites. Rosa Parks is tired of sitting at the back of the bus and giving up her seat to white men. One tired day he refused to move from the front of the bus and became one of history's heroes in the Civil Rights Act movement.(4) The Civil Rights Act: In 1964, Congress passed a Civil Rights Act that prohibited racial discrimination in restaurants , theatres, hotels, hospitals and public structures of all kinds. This civil rights law also made it easier and safer for black Southerners to register and vote. Laws were passed to help the poor improve their ability to earn money, a program to give additional help to at-risk children even before they were old enough to go to school, and a program to train school