Why Was The Montgomery Bus Boycott Important

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a highly important event The Civil Rights Movement featuring several famous and latter important people including The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King jr and civil rights icon Rosa Parks. This was also an early victory for The Civil Rights Movement and The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The event also gave The Civil Rights Movement legitimacy and showed that peaceful protests could yield results. All of the events of the boycott would later have repercussions far beyond what the people behind it could have imagined.
The Boycott started on December 1st 1955 when Rosa Parks famously refused to yield her seat to a White man on a Montgomery bus. Under the segregation used by Montgomery the ten front seats were reserved for Whites at all times. The ten back seats were supposed to be reserved for Blacks at all times. The middle section of the bus had sixteen unreserved seats for whites and Blacks on a segregated basis. Whites filled the middle seats from the front to back, and Blacks filled seats from the back to front until the bus was full. If other Black people boarded the bus, they were required to stand. If another White person boarded the bus, then everyone in the Black row nearest the front had to get up and stand,
They wanted a person who the country would be sympathetic toward. When a young teanager had been arested Black leaders thought that they had found the right person but it turned out that she was pregnant and they thought that fact would turn the public against them and make it hard to muster support. Rosa Parks was married employed and a respected member of the community so NAACP president E.D. Nixon chose her for the test case. Once she had been arrested Nixon organised a meeting of african american leaders in Martin Luther King jr's church and they agreed on a