Rosa Parks And The Montgomery Bus Boycott Analysis
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, oral presentation
Caused by the Jim Crow laws, Montgomery (Alabama) segregated bus passengers by race. The first four rows of seats on each bus were reserved for whites, and the conductors could, if necessary, order black passengers to move further back when there were no available white seats left. Black people could sit in the middle row, until the white section was filled up. If white people were already sitting in the front, black people had to board the bus at the front to pay, then go back out and re-enter through the backdoor.
According to the laws, no passenger – black or white – would be required to give up his or her seat if the bus was crowded. However, the Montgomery bus drivers controlled …show more content…
The chain of events triggered by this event led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On the night of her arrest, the Women’s Political Council issued a flyer throughout Montgomery’s black community. The flyer encouraged the community to boycott the buses as of Monday December 5th, and rather take a taxi or walk to show that black people also had rights. Some black commuters walked as far as 20 miles to avoid the buses. Seeing as 75 percent of the bus riders were black, the buses could not operate without them. A thorough boycott would cause a big economic distress.
The evening after the successful boycott, a group of people, including Rosa Parks and Ralph Abernathy, met at a church to discuss the next step in the fight against segregation. They decided that a new organisation was necessary, and formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The group elected Martin Luther King Jr. as their …show more content…
The black people had been suppressed for decades, and the community wanted to challenge the segregation laws. They were tired of being treated like a second choice in every situation, and wanted to show, as written in Women’s Political Council’s flyer, “black people also have rights”. NAACP figured they needed an incident taken to court to shed light on the issue, and to prove how the Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional. In addition, it also went against another law, saying, “no person, black or white, can be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available”. Rosa Parks was a known member of the NAACP, and leader E. D. Nixon believed she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge. That day on the bus, Parks decided to give the organisation the arrest it needed to make the first
Caused by the Jim Crow laws, Montgomery (Alabama) segregated bus passengers by race. The first four rows of seats on each bus were reserved for whites, and the conductors could, if necessary, order black passengers to move further back when there were no available white seats left. Black people could sit in the middle row, until the white section was filled up. If white people were already sitting in the front, black people had to board the bus at the front to pay, then go back out and re-enter through the backdoor.
According to the laws, no passenger – black or white – would be required to give up his or her seat if the bus was crowded. However, the Montgomery bus drivers controlled …show more content…
The chain of events triggered by this event led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On the night of her arrest, the Women’s Political Council issued a flyer throughout Montgomery’s black community. The flyer encouraged the community to boycott the buses as of Monday December 5th, and rather take a taxi or walk to show that black people also had rights. Some black commuters walked as far as 20 miles to avoid the buses. Seeing as 75 percent of the bus riders were black, the buses could not operate without them. A thorough boycott would cause a big economic distress.
The evening after the successful boycott, a group of people, including Rosa Parks and Ralph Abernathy, met at a church to discuss the next step in the fight against segregation. They decided that a new organisation was necessary, and formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The group elected Martin Luther King Jr. as their …show more content…
The black people had been suppressed for decades, and the community wanted to challenge the segregation laws. They were tired of being treated like a second choice in every situation, and wanted to show, as written in Women’s Political Council’s flyer, “black people also have rights”. NAACP figured they needed an incident taken to court to shed light on the issue, and to prove how the Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional. In addition, it also went against another law, saying, “no person, black or white, can be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available”. Rosa Parks was a known member of the NAACP, and leader E. D. Nixon believed she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge. That day on the bus, Parks decided to give the organisation the arrest it needed to make the first