The course of the Montgomery Bus boycott was made up of various significant events. It all began with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the Montgomery Bus on the afternoon of December 1st 1955. She was taken to jail‚ fingerprinted and was allowed to use the phone. This is when Rosa Parks made contact with the Black civil rights leaders and when they began to take action on there plan to boycott Montgomery busses. This was the beginning of the protest against segregation. The protest began
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott The Montgomery Bus Boycott was started by a woman who stood up against unjust segregation by sitting down. It officially started on December 5‚1955‚ because an African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. It was started by the Montgomery Improvement Association‚ who created themselves for this purpose only. It continued for 381 days‚ a little over a year‚ until bus segregation was declared unconstitutional. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Consequences/importance of the Montgomery Bus Protest 1. The direct result was that in 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was illegal (Browder v Gayle). 2. After 13 months the bus companies gave in. This was REALLY important for the future because it showed to both Blacks and Whites in America that in racial discrimination cases - eventually - the Blacks would win. The battle was by no means finished‚ but after Montgomery the Whites knew they were going to lose in the end‚ and
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Civil Rights- Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. was born on January 15‚ 1929. His mother was a teacher and she taught him to read before he started school. She also tried to explain prejudice and the Jim Crow laws that separated Whites and Blacks. She explained the Civil War and how it ended slavery. He had a lot of books at his parent house. He decided he would do well in a white man’s world. His father was a preacher. He gave a great example to Martin Luther
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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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By Riley Burt Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott December 1‚ 1955 an African American woman named Rosa Parks‚ a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)‚ refused to stand to give up her seat to a white male as the Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ city bus was full and this was the expectation of African American people the buses were segregated and if the bus was full in the ’white’ section African Americans’ were expected to stand and let the white person
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Have you ever heard of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Do you know who started it all? Well‚ listen carefully to find out more about this amazing‚ influential person. First of all‚ family was very important to Rosa Parks. She was born on February fourth‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her maiden name is Rosa Louise McCauley. When Parks was sixteen years old‚ 1929‚ she dropped out of high school to help her grandmother. Her grandmother was very ill. After all Parks had gone through‚ about a month later‚
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Assess the role played by The Montgomery Bus Boycott in the struggle for civil rights in America 1954 - 1965 Montgomery is the state capital. It was one of the most segregated cities in the USA in the 1950s. In 1954‚ the US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka destroyed the legal basis for segregation in education. However‚ in the southern states of the USA Jim Crow Laws continued to enforce segregation and discrimination against black Americans in housing‚ transport
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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 she still said no. Then she was forced off the bus then arrested.On the
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful because of the buses’ dependence on the African American community‚ the protest’s copious amount of supporters‚ and the demonstrators’ nonviolent practices. Despite the fact that many of them were segregated‚ the buses in the South heavily relied on the African Americans for their source of income. A majority of the people who boarded the buses and paid the fares were blacks. Specifically‚ according to the president of the Women’s Political Council‚ Jo Ann
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