On December 1st 1955 a woman by the name of Rosa parks had gotten on the bus. She sat in the fifth row which was the first row of the "colored section". The custom for blacks getting on the bus was for them to pay there fair and the re-enter the bus from the back and sometime the driver would just drive off before they could even re-enter the bus. The bus began to fill with whites; the driver had asked some blacks to move back. Three moved back but Rosa stayed. Then the buss driver said to her if she was going to move. She replied to him "no I am not "(quote taken from quiet strength parks page 23) then she was told well that he was going to have to call the police and have them arrest her and she replied "you may go on and do that" (dove rita " on the bus with rosa parks www.time.com date of interenet publication not given went to sight 3/30/05 www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html).
On the weekend of December 3 and 4th Ralph Abernathy and martin Luther king met with the head of the women's political council. There purpose was to plan a large boycott against the Montgomery city bus lines. (the montgomery bus boycott publication date not given wentr to sight on 3/30/05 http://campus.northpark.edu/history//webchron/usa/montbus.cp.html). During the Montgomery bus boycott one of the buses used by the freedom riders was fire bombed by a mob of white people outside of Birmingham.
The boycott began on that Monday December 5th. The boycott was an immediate success. About 90 percent the people who took the bus to work or school joined the boycott and found other way to get were they were going. Late that evening the black leaders of the community held another meeting and formed an organization called the M.IA (Montgomery improvement association). Martin Luther king Jr was elected president of the organization. The bus boycott continued until 1956 about a year.
The Montgomery bus boycott was a very significant even in the civil rights movement. That went on between the years 1950's through the 1960's. The boycott was very important for many reason it caught the attention on the whole nation. It was mostly important because it set the mood for the whole civil rights movement. The movement set the stage for martin Luther king to become a political leader.
Martin Luther King led the boycott. turned out to be an immediate success, despite the threats and violence against white people. A federal court ordered Montgomery buses. desegregated in November 1956, and the boycott ended in triumph. King led several sit-ins, this kind of movement was a success.
An event to remember....- While the fight by blacks for civil rights had been going on for years, it took one middle-aged black woman with tired feet and a strong will to really get the battle going. On the 1st of December 1955, seamstress Mrs. Rosa Parks, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat, she was found guilty of the crime of disorderly conduct with a fine of fourteen dollars.
Although the other African Americans complied, Rosa Parks did not. She was then arrested and fined. The Montgomery Bus Boycott took place for days after the incident with Rosa Parks from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956. During this time, African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in protest of segregated seating. The Bus Boycott lasted 381 days.
The bus boycott succeed because the black people stood up for what they thought was right, they did not use violence, they did not fight back, they fought smart, and they fought right. See many of the white people abuse the power that they had by making the blacks give up their seats after long days of work, and making them go to the back of the store to purchase food and other items. They treated them different because they didn’t have the same skin tone, but little did they know that on December 1st 1955 everything was about to change; one day on the bus ride home when Rosa Parks decided that she was not going to stand and let a young white man have her seat after a long day at work, she was arrested.
The Montgomery bus boycott was caused when Rosa Parks, an African American woman on December 1, 1955 refused to obey the bus driver James Blake’s that demanded that she give up her seat to a white man. Because she refused, police came and arrested her. During her arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience, it triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history. Her role in American history earned her an iconic status in American culture, and her actions have left an enduring legacy for civil rights movements around the world. Soon after her arrest, Martin Luther King Jr. led a boycott against the public transportation system because it was unfair. This launched Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the organizers of the
On December 1, 1955, Parks was taking the bus home from work. Before she reached her destination, she silently set off a revolution when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. As a black violating the laws of racial segregation, she was arrested. Her arrest inspired blacks in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to organize a bus boycott to protest the discrimination they had endured for decades. After filing her notice of appeal, a panel of judges in the District Court ruled that racial segregation of public buses was unconstitutional. It was through her silent act of defiance that people began to protest racial discrimination, and where she earned the name “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” (Bredhoff et
Rosa Parks was a member of the NAACP, lived in Montgomery Alabama, and rode the public bus system. In the south, during this time the buses were segregated which meant that black people had to ride in the back of the bus behind a painted line. White people entered the front of the bus and were compelled to sit in front of the painted line. Most buses at the time had more room for white riders who used the service less than the black ridership. Yet, they could not cross the line even if the seats in the front were empty (Brown-Rose, 2008). Rosa Parks made a bold statement when she sat in the “white section” of a Montgomery bus. She was asked to surrender her seat to a white man, but she did not move and was soon arrested. Her brave action started the Montgomery bus Boycott, with the help of the NAACP, none other than Dr. Martin Luther King’s leadership as part of the Montgomery Improvement Association. As its President, he was able spread the word quickly which brought national attention to the small town of Montgomery’s bus Boycott. The boycott was televised and brought so much attention that the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional; a success spurring a more
... black people, but laws say everyone is to be treated equal. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a main point in the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement and the Montgomery Boycott changed the way people are today. The before and after life of African Americans and even whites, is a huge difference.
Over the course of his life, Dr. King would lead and participate in multiple non-violent protests against segregation. On the first of December, 1955, the arrest of Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama would trigger the first of many protests led by King. The Montgomery bus boycott would last for 385 days and was so tense that King’s house was bombed. He was later arrested and released after the United States District Courts ruled that segregation on all Montgomery public buses was illegal. This paved the way for King to lead many more protests in his life and becoming a major leader in the desegregation movement.
In late 1955, Dr. King was elected to lead his first public peaceful protest. For the rest of the year and throughout all of 1956, African Americans decided to boycott the Montgomery bus system in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. After 382 days of protest, the city of Montgomery was forced to lift the law mandating segregated public transportation because of the large financial losses they suffered from the protest. King began to receive notice on a national level in 1960. On October ...
Although the boycott was long, gruesome, and almost 400 days Parks made it through but was exhausted by the end. (biography.com) The leader that started the boycott was Rosa Parks, and without her and the NAACP there would have been no boycott at all. It all started on December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks was on her way home from a long day at work. After she sat down and the bus was ready to depart, the bus driver asked the first row of African Americans to get up because there was a white man who didn't have a seat.
There was a white passenger that boarded the bus and due to the whites section being full Mrs.Parks and three other passengers was asked to move their seats to the back of the bus. The three other passengers complied with the bus driver but Mrs.Parks did not. Being that Mrs.Parks had put up with discrimination and prejudice her whole life she decided to answer the call and stand up for for herself. This was the start of a whole new
Blacks walked miles to work, organized carpools, and despite efforts from the police to discourage this new spark of independence, the boycotts continued for more than a year until in November 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that the Montgomery bus company must desegregate it's busses. Were it not for the leadership of Rosa Parks and Jo Ann Robinson, and the support the black community through church congregations, these events may have not happened for many years to come.
Others have look up to Mohandas Gandhi and his nonviolent campaign, one such as Martin Luther King, a black minister who was chosen as president of a newly formed organization, the Montgomery Improvement Association (Introduction to Conflict Resolution Studies ) . King had not only been influence by Gandhi writing and campaign but he also took his advice on nonviolence action. Since he was trying to gain freedom of the Montgomery Bus Boycott for the black. His philosophy was not only nonviolence resistance, but how to react when confronting a violence. This campaign begins not long after a black woman did not give up her seat to let a white person sit, she was arrested and king was disturbing by this he thinks that all people should have equal rights. According to the (Introduction to Conflict Resolution Studies ), the bus boycott remains solid, although it was impossible to organize transport for everyone, many had to walk long distance. The case keeps on going, at the end of 1956 the court supports the decision that the segregation of buses was incantational and they gain victory.
This boycott began as a way to protest anger towards the arrest of Rosa Parks, but it had a much greater impact. Due to much of their clientele being lost as a result of this boycott, the bus company had to raise prices in order to maintain their company and profit. Since African-Americans were not riding buses, many used taxis. As a result, many taxi drivers