Rosa Parks And The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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 have their seat. Though she did not believe in these rights therefore was removed from the bus, arrested and fined 10 dollars.
December 5, 1955, Parks was convicted of violating the segregation laws, the local African American community organised
a bus boycott. The boycott was run by Martin Luther King Jr and lasted over 365 days. Over 70 percent of people who caught buses were African American so when the boycott began the bus company instantly began to lose money, this also effected the downtown areas of Montgomery.
As appeals and related lawsuits wended their way through the courts, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme
Court, the boycott engendered anger in much of Montgomery's white population as well as some violence, and Nixon's and Dr. King's homes were bombed. The drama continued to gain national and international attention from the press in Montgomery but this didn't prevent the boycotters or their leaders from the violence. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregations was unconstitutional and on 20th
December the boycott ended with help from the NAACP the U.S Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional to separate people based on their race, also it was not legal to segregate black from whites on public transportation. Parks became a nationally recognised symbol of dignity and strength in the struggle to end racial segregation she was now considered "the mother of the civil rights
movement".
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 have their seat. Though she did not believe in these rights therefore was removed from the bus, arrested and fined 10 dollars.
December 5, 1955, Parks was convicted of violating the segregation laws, the local African American community organised
a bus boycott. The boycott was run by Martin Luther King Jr and lasted over 365 days. Over 70 percent of people who caught buses were African American so when the boycott began the bus company instantly began to lose money, this also effected the downtown areas of Montgomery.
As appeals and related lawsuits wended their way through the courts, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme
Court, the boycott engendered anger in much of Montgomery's white population as well as some violence, and Nixon's and Dr. King's homes were bombed. The drama continued to gain national and international attention from the press in Montgomery but this didn't prevent the boycotters or their leaders from the violence. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregations was unconstitutional and on 20th
December the boycott ended with help from the NAACP the U.S Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional to separate people based on their race, also it was not legal to segregate black from whites on public transportation. Parks became a nationally recognised symbol of dignity and strength in the struggle to end racial segregation she was now considered "the mother of the civil rights
movement".