Who is The Black Community in Montgomery from Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice and what is their importance?

While there are many minor characters in the book, none of them add up to the full force of the black community in Montgomery. They are often treated as an actor in themselves, as having attitudes, reactions, emotional states, perseverance and judgments. For instances, the black community is described as being energized by Claudette's resistance of bus segregation. But it is also described as becoming enraged with Montgomery city officials who enforced segregation. The black community was organized around the bus boycott, for instance. Together, "they" managed to continue the boycott for over a year. Similarly, "they" organized a system of alternative transportation through carpooling that would not be available otherwise.