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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a part of civil right movement. It was a protest against the racial segregation policy in public transit system of Montgomery‚ Alabama. It was started on December 1‚ 1955. On that day‚ a large number of black people of Montgomery‚ Alabama were decided that they will boycott the public transport system until they get right to sit anywhere they want in transportation system In Montgomery there was a rule that in municipal buses there were separate coaches for white up

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    Schools‚ restaurants‚ and even bathrooms were all segregated‚ and it was very evident in public transportation. Montgomery‚ Alabama played an important role in the American Civil Rights movement through their Jim Crow Laws‚ the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ the Freedom Rides‚ and the Sit-in Movements. One

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    Number: 19 Period 3 Montgomery Bus Boycott On December 1‚ 1955‚ Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white man. It was unlikely that she realized the force she had set into motion and the controversy that would soon swirl around her. “I didn’t get on the bus with the intention of being arrested‚” she said. Earlier that year in March 2‚ 1955‚ a 15-year old girl Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery‚ Alabama. Actually

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    rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”. Born in 1913‚ Rosa grew up in an exceedingly ethnic segregated America where black people were being mistreated in most of society’s aspects. Her refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery‚ Alabama bus‚ on December 1‚ 1955‚ led to her arrest which ultimately trigged a wave of involvement within the civil rights movement in the United States. Her quite courageous act changed America‚ its view of black people and redirected

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    The focus of this investigation will be “How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott lead to the rise of Martin Luther King Jr? In this process I will analyze the effects in which Martin Luther King had on his audience‚ as well as how other members of the nonviolence protest group‚ Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)‚ assisted in his emergence as a prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. For this investigation‚ it will be important to mention other leaders‚ such as Malcolm X or

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    influenced the Montgomery Boycott that eventually led to the lifting of segregated seating laws for public transportation. Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. She attended local schools until the age of eleven where she then attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. Years later she ceased to attend school in order to take care of her grandmother and then her mother. In 1932 she married a man named Raymond Parks‚ a barber from Montgomery. After she

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    Martin Luther King Jr.“Montgomery Bus Boycott” I believe the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ led by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ is one of the most significant events‚ resulting in a change in the Civil Rights Movements. It was the first mass protest and greatly influenced laws regarding segregation on busses‚ changing transportation in the south‚ and across the U.S. Martin Luther King shared the philosophy of Gandhi for non-violent‚ passive‚ techniques for social protest. He visited Gandhi‚ and believed in

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    the boycotts‚ stating that movements

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    1955 by refusing to give up her seat to a white man as she was told to do by the bus driver. She did this with the intention of a new movement with better rights for all colored people. Parks got arrested and charged for her refusal and the city started a boycott of the bus line called the Montgomery bus boycott. This was the colored people demanding courtesy and respect from the bus line. Parks actions of the bus started

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    declaring themselves “the leader of the Free World”. However it wasn’t until the infamous Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 that weight and emergency was given to racial issues of the time. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 381 day-long protest in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ that galvanized the American Civil Rights Movement and would see the involvement of 4200 African-Americans. Up to 1955‚ Montgomery‚ like other states‚ had laws and regulations that were discriminate towards the black community

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