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    State Teachers College for Negroes. she had a great family and friends. on December 1st‚ 1955 she did something that would change the world economy forever. On Thursday‚ December 1st‚ 1955 Mrs. Parks was on her way home from a hard day at work on a Montgomery bus. Blacks were supposed to sit in the back of the bus and let the whites sit in the front and the middle. on that day‚ rosa parks were sitting in the middle. When another white person came on the bus she was asked to move. He asked her again and

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a highly important event The Civil Rights Movement featuring several famous and latter important people including The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King jr and civil rights icon Rosa Parks. This was also an early victory for The Civil Rights Movement and The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The event also gave The Civil Rights Movement legitimacy and showed that peaceful protests could yield results. All of the events of the boycott would later have repercussions

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    a minister as well. In 1953 King graduated with his doctorate in Systematic Theology and married Coretta Scott. King settled down in Montgomery Alabama and became a father of four as well as the minister to a Baptist church. His strong education and minister status allowed him to meet leaders in the equality movement. These leaders chose King to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. His peaceful law abiding protest was a huge

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    Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Since the earliest of times African Americans have been denied their rights. Finally when having enough of this discrimination they started a movement in 1955 that would soon be called the civil rights movement. This was initially triggered by the death of a young African American boy at the age of fourteen named Emmett Till. All of which would initiate a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality of all people. Starting with Rosa Parks and

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    Claire Birkhead Mrs. Smith Junior English 31 August 2016 The End to Segregation on Montgomery City Buses In Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ on December 1‚ 1955‚ things for African Americans changed. I got on the Cleveland Avenue bus to head home from work at a Montgomery department store. The bus was on its route and it began filling with more and more passengers as they kept going. The bus driver saw that there were four white men standing and he stopped the bus to get them a seat. There were four colored

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    Why did the Montgomery bus boycott succeed? In December 1995‚ a bus boycott began‚ it all started with a black woman named Rosa parks. Even though she is not the first African American this happened to‚ it all started when she bought a ticket on the bus to go home after a long day’s work. A white man got on the bus and the driver asked her to move‚ she refused and were arrested. After her story was heard around the town the bus boycott began‚ the local blacks and some whites got involved with the

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    www.GoodReads.com) Martin Luther King Jr. was becoming an inspiration to many families‚ businessmen by just speaking his mind and soon people understood where he was coming from. Martin Luther King Jr. was apart of many‚ things‚ but one was the Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King Jr. did many praiseworthy things in his life that have abundantly affected the world‚ such as became the founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. In February 1960 the SCLC

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    movement and the achievements. The boycott began on the 1st December 1955 with Rosa Parks in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ with Rosa Parks. She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man on demand. She was arrested and imprisoned for violating the law. This was the beginning of the campaign of non-violence. In protest to Parks’ arrest‚ the African American community‚ who comprised 75% of bus users in Montgomery‚ began

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    the external constraints framed not just by the legal system but by the deeply rooted social customs of the Deep South ‘cramping’ the mobility of Black and other colored minorities” (Luthi‚ 390). The alternative transportation established in the Montgomery Bus Boycott was more to allow the boycott to continue for an extended period‚ while the purpose of this protest is to show off the desegregation of the buses entering the South. The Boycott sought to force desegregation through loss of business

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    In Martin Luther King Junior’s “Speech Ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott”‚ he describes the actions and protest that the citizens of Montgomery participated to create the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott began when Rosa Parks sat in the front of a bus after a long day of work and was ordered to yield her seat to a white citizen. She respectfully refused and was then arrested do to the unjust laws about segregation on public transportation. In response to her arrest‚ citizens of the black community

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