Montgomery Bus Boycott Outline

The “Montgomery Bus Boycott” was a Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama where African Americans protested against rules on the bus. The rules and laws on the bus were that if a white male or female asked an African American male or female to get up, they would have to stand up and allow the white person to sit down. The bus boycott lasted 381 day from the dates December 1, 1955 through December 20, 1956. The movement was started by Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat up after a long day at work to a white man. The bus was divided into two sections; the front part of the bus was for the white people and the back half was for the African Americans, but if the white section was full then the white person would have to go to the African American and the African American would have to stand and let the white person sit in their seat. …show more content…
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to Leona McCauley and James McCauley. Rosa had dropped out of school as a teen, but she went on in life to marry her husband, Raymond Parks, in 1932. He encouraged her to return to school, and graduate to get her high school diploma. Rosa worked as a seamstress, but she also was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where she was a secretary until 1956. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. Rosa was put in jail and later bailed out by local civil rights leaders. That then started The Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was one of the first documented large-scale U.S. demonstrations against segregation. Rosa Parks was one of the main people that was focused on during this movement, but she wasn’t the only