The success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott was the result of many people withholding precious money from bus companies. The collective efforts of keeping off of the buses made it difficult for the bus companies to operate. Three of the most important parts to the boycott were the leaders‚ the people who would boycott‚ and more work and helping opportunities for others. The leaders of the boycott were some of the most important people because they helped spread the word and start the movement. Ralph
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Have you ever heard about the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Have you ever heard about Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr? If you have‚ you probably know these people as the faces of the bus boycott that took place in Montgomery‚ Alabama in 1956. If someone were to ask you what you know about this movement‚ you would probably tell them what you were taught in elementary school. You would say that she and Martin Luther King Jr. are responsible for the success of the boycott. This‚ however‚ is not necessarily
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forever. On Thursday‚ December 1st‚ 1955 Mrs. Parks was on her way home from a hard day at work on a Montgomery bus. Blacks were supposed to sit in the back of the bus and let the whites sit in the front and the middle. on that day‚ rosa parks were sitting in the middle. When another white person came on the bus she was asked to move. He asked her again and she still said no. Then she was forced off the bus then arrested.On the evening
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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
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Assess the significance of the Montgomery bus boycott in the struggle for civil rights in the USA. Evaluate. (50marks) In my essay I will assess the Montgomery bus boycott‚ 1955 and its significance in the struggle for civil rights in the USA and why history has been represented and interpreted in different ways. In addition‚ I will examine the usefulness of sources and evaluate the struggles to get civil rights. I will evaluate
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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
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Before any of the boycott had started‚ all over the south‚ segregation between the two races was extremely common. Public areas like restaurants‚ rest rooms‚ churches‚ movie theatres‚ etc. had separated blacks from whites. Colored people could not sit where whites could. Blacks could not go to white churches‚ schools or rest rooms. One black woman named Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat to a white person‚ on the public bus. She was arrested and fined. E.D. Nixon had used Parks’ arrest as
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minister as well. In 1953 King graduated with his doctorate in Systematic Theology and married Coretta Scott. King settled down in Montgomery Alabama and became a father of four as well as the minister to a Baptist church. His strong education and minister status allowed him to meet leaders in the equality movement. These leaders chose King to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. His peaceful law abiding protest was a huge
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In Martin Luther King Junior’s “Speech Ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott”‚ he describes the actions and protest that the citizens of Montgomery participated to create the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott began when Rosa Parks sat in the front of a bus after a long day of work and was ordered to yield her seat to a white citizen. She respectfully refused and was then arrested do to the unjust laws about segregation on public transportation. In response to her arrest‚ citizens of the black community
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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
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