Montgomery Bus Boycott Essay
The next ethnic group is African Americans from the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March of Washington, freedom summer, and Selma March all for their hope of equality. In Alabama there was segregation laws all over the state the separated whites from blacks, and the state bus was no different (2). The Montgomery Bus Boycott started because Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man (2). The law states that blacks must give up their seats for a white man in the black section if there isn’t enough seats for whites (2). Rosa parks refused to give up her seat because she was a trained activist (Sanders 4). She was arrested for not obeying the law and giving up her seat on the bus to the white man (3). There was a leaders group held to discuss
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the bus boycott where it was decided that 7,000 leaflets were to be made and sent out to the communities (3). The flyer was to tell the communities not to ride the bus on Monday and to for them to take other means of transportation (4). On Monday December 5, 1955 nearly all African Americans stopped riding the city bus, that was going to be the deciding point on whether or not the boycott would continue on after that (4).
The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for days after that, 381 days to be exact (Rymarz). The United States Supreme Court decided after 381 days of boycotting the busses they ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional (Rymarz). The March on Washington was a freedom march but the official name was March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1). Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the last speaker in front of the US capital where he said his famous I have a dream speech in front of all the African Americans that walked to be able to be treated as equals (1). The Selma to Montgomery March was a 5 day march that was 54 miles long for the voting rights (2). The march was to get more African Americans registered to vote (2). Summer of 1964 for most volunteers Freedom Summer started at Western College for Women in Oxford Ohio where there was two week-long orientation for workers in voter registration and the other for Freedom School teachers (McAdam 66). There was lessons in how to protect themselves if attracted but nothing was like the real life event (McAdam
69). The first group of volunteers that arrived in Mississippi where they were arrested, released but went missing and later found dead sometime in August (McAdam 70). The first group of volunteers arrived in Mississippi as 250 voter registration workers and later 300 Freedom School and community center (McAdam 75).
the bus boycott where it was decided that 7,000 leaflets were to be made and sent out to the communities (3). The flyer was to tell the communities not to ride the bus on Monday and to for them to take other means of transportation (4). On Monday December 5, 1955 nearly all African Americans stopped riding the city bus, that was going to be the deciding point on whether or not the boycott would continue on after that (4).
The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for days after that, 381 days to be exact (Rymarz). The United States Supreme Court decided after 381 days of boycotting the busses they ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional (Rymarz). The March on Washington was a freedom march but the official name was March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1). Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the last speaker in front of the US capital where he said his famous I have a dream speech in front of all the African Americans that walked to be able to be treated as equals (1). The Selma to Montgomery March was a 5 day march that was 54 miles long for the voting rights (2). The march was to get more African Americans registered to vote (2). Summer of 1964 for most volunteers Freedom Summer started at Western College for Women in Oxford Ohio where there was two week-long orientation for workers in voter registration and the other for Freedom School teachers (McAdam 66). There was lessons in how to protect themselves if attracted but nothing was like the real life event (McAdam
69). The first group of volunteers that arrived in Mississippi where they were arrested, released but went missing and later found dead sometime in August (McAdam 70). The first group of volunteers arrived in Mississippi as 250 voter registration workers and later 300 Freedom School and community center (McAdam 75).