Montgomery Bus Boycott
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- December 1, 1955
- Rosa Parks is arrested for violating bus seregation laws
- December 5, 1955 http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/timeline.htm
- Rosa Parks is convicted and fined in Montgomery Court. The one-day bus boycott results in 90 percent of normal black ridership staying off buses.
- Birthday/Deathday
- February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005
- Later years
- After her arrest, Rosa Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement
- 1980
- Rosa Parks helped found the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation for college-bound high school seniors.
- December 5, 1955- again http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/montgomerybusboycott/a/montbusboycott.htm
- On the afternoon of decmeber 5, black leaders met and formed the Montgomery Improvment Association (MIA)
- Febuary 1, 1956 http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/montgomerybusboycott/a/montbusboycott.htm
- The MIA filed suit in the United States District Court challenging the constitutionality of bus segregation.
- Outcome
- The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year, demonstrating a new spirit of protest among Southern blacks.
- In June of 1956
- the U.S. District Court rules in favor of the MIA, the city appealed the decision to the United States Surpreme Court.
- What was it
- Protest in Montgomery, Alabama protesting the segregation on the buses
- How did it start
- When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man she was arrested
- What happened after she was arrested
- There were around 52,000flier created telling all Montgomery blacks to stay off the public buses
- What went on after she was bailed out
- MLK Jr. and a group of 50 black leaders and 1 white minister gathered in MLK Jr.'s basement. There they talked about a boycott and planned a rally the evening of her trial
- What kind of torure did the blacks have to deal with on the buses
- They would have to pay in the front of the bus and then reboard on the back. The bus would sometimes pull away before they reboard. No black man/women could sit in the same row as a white and white's had priority to no man's land (mmiddle of the bus).
- What did the blacks do during the boycott
- The blacks agreed on not taking any type of public transpotation. Instead they would walk where they have to go.
- Overall impact
- blacks were able to sit where they wanted on the public buses and it helped to start the Civil Rights Movement