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The boycott was a mass protest against the segregation of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system. It also brought Martin Luther King, Jr., into the spotlight as one of the most important leaders of the movement.
- Claudette Colvin
- The Bus of Rosa Parks
- Action Against Montgomery’s Laws
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Going to Court
- How Did The City Survive Without Buses?
- Martin Luther King
- Time Goes by But The Boycott Resists
- The End of The Boycott
- Consequences of The Montgomery Bus Boycott
A few women refused to give up their seats and they were fined. Nobody talked about them. But when Claudette Colvin was 15, she refused to move to the back of a bus because a white person wanted her seat. Colvin was on the bus, but she refused to leave. The police took her off the bus and arrested her. Nine months before Rosa Parks also did this an...
On December 1st, 1955, a woman named Rosa Parks was at work. Rosa Parks was forty-two years old and she worked as a seamstress in a department store. She also had been active in her local chapter of the NAACP. She was the secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Rosa took the bus home and sat in the front seat of...
Nixon bailed Rosa out of jail and they made a plan for Parks to be the plaintiff in an upcoming court case against Montgomery’s segregation. The Women’s Political Council (WPC) President Jo Ann Robinson proposed a boycott of the bus system. It would start on December 5th, the same day Rosa Parks would be tried in municipal court. As news of the boy...
Initially, the group did not have to change segregation laws. They just wanted people to be polite and hire African American drivers. The first-come, the first-seated policy would be for white people who would enter from the front and African Americans from the rear. The demands for black people to ride the buses were not met, so they still stayed ...
A group of four Montgomery women from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) sued Montgomery in court. They wanted more things than just nice words. They wanted to end once and for all with bus segregation laws. It began with Fred Gray. Fred Gray was a lawyer. He knew there was a law that said that you couldn’t have ...
African Americans made up most of Montgomery’s bus riders. They did not have cars. They decided to walk instead of taking buses. They also organized carpools for African Americans. The taxies would charge only 10 cents which were the same as bus fare.
Martin Luther King Jr. led the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. This church was known for being a place where people could go to practice civil disobedience. Martin Luther King Jr. learned about this idea from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi, who both taught that nonviolent resistance is an important tool against social injustice...
In 1956, the houses of Martin Luther King Jr. and E. D. Nixon were bombed. Many people were worried. They got together outside Dr. King’s house. He came out to say: City officials got an order against the boycott in February 1956. They indicted people who had been boycotting under a law that says that you cannot have the conspiracy to do something ...
The bus company lost a lot of money. The city was desperate to end the boycott. The police started to harass King and other MIA leaders. Carpool drivers were arrested for driving too slow or not using a carpool lane. But despite all this, the boycott remained successful. African Americans took pride in their actions because they knew that would bri...
The Montgomery bus boycott was the start of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. became well-known and a leader thanks to it. Montgomery became an example for other cities. Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis all had people who did what Dr. King did in Montgomery. The bus boycott was good for changing the laws that were not fair. The...
Learn how Rosa Parks's arrest sparked a peaceful protest against racial segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Find out how Martin Luther King, Jr. led the boycott and challenged the law in court.
The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest against segregation on the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama. Civil rights activists and their supporters began the protest in 1955, and it lasted for 381 days.
For 381 days in 1955 and 1956, the Black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama boycotted the city bus system. Black riders had been mistreated on public transit all over the country for decades, and...
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