Why Did The Montgomery Bus Boycott Succeed
Why did the Montgomery bus boycott succeed?
In December 1995, a bus boycott began, it all started with a black woman named Rosa parks. Even though she is not the first African American this happened to, it all started when she bought a ticket on the bus to go home after a long day’s work. A white man got on the bus and the driver asked her to move, she refused and were arrested. After her story was heard around the town the bus boycott began, the local blacks and some whites got involved with the boycott, even some higher people like mayor W. Gayle, The Woman’s political counsel, Virginia Foster Durr,, Jo Ann Robinsons, Ralph Abernathy’s.
The first case or letter written to fight against this was a letter from the woman’s political council, they was writing the letter to help against all discrimination but as we all know nothing helped they all wanted more equal rights, the letter stated. ‘’ Please consider this plea, and if possible, act favorably upon it, for …show more content…
Some of the WPC officers previously had discussed how and where to deliver thousands of leaflets announcing a boycott, and those plans now stood me in good stead....
After class, my two students and I quickly finalized our plans for distributing the thousands of leaflets so that one would reach every black home in Montgomery. I took out the WPC membership roster and called [them].... I alerted all of them to the forthcoming distribution of the leaflets, and enlisted their aid in speeding and organizing the distribution network....
Throughout the late morning and early afternoon hours, we dropped off tens of thousands of leaflets. Some of our bundles were dropped off at schools.... Leaflets were also dropped off at business places, storefronts, beauty parlors, beer halls, factories, barbershops, and every other available place. Workers would pass along notices both to other employees as well as to
In December 1995, a bus boycott began, it all started with a black woman named Rosa parks. Even though she is not the first African American this happened to, it all started when she bought a ticket on the bus to go home after a long day’s work. A white man got on the bus and the driver asked her to move, she refused and were arrested. After her story was heard around the town the bus boycott began, the local blacks and some whites got involved with the boycott, even some higher people like mayor W. Gayle, The Woman’s political counsel, Virginia Foster Durr,, Jo Ann Robinsons, Ralph Abernathy’s.
The first case or letter written to fight against this was a letter from the woman’s political council, they was writing the letter to help against all discrimination but as we all know nothing helped they all wanted more equal rights, the letter stated. ‘’ Please consider this plea, and if possible, act favorably upon it, for …show more content…
Some of the WPC officers previously had discussed how and where to deliver thousands of leaflets announcing a boycott, and those plans now stood me in good stead....
After class, my two students and I quickly finalized our plans for distributing the thousands of leaflets so that one would reach every black home in Montgomery. I took out the WPC membership roster and called [them].... I alerted all of them to the forthcoming distribution of the leaflets, and enlisted their aid in speeding and organizing the distribution network....
Throughout the late morning and early afternoon hours, we dropped off tens of thousands of leaflets. Some of our bundles were dropped off at schools.... Leaflets were also dropped off at business places, storefronts, beauty parlors, beer halls, factories, barbershops, and every other available place. Workers would pass along notices both to other employees as well as to