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There were various reasons for the occurrence of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It started off with Mrs. Rosa Parks, who defied the “canons of white supremacy” by resisting a segregation law, stating that African Americans must give up their seat for whites. The bus driver warned Parks that she would be arrested if she did not get up, yet she resisted the order and let them arrest her. Subsequently, E. D. Nixon released Rosa Parks and wanted to showcase a form of direct action. Nixon also knew…

Montgomery bus Boycott A woman named Rosa Parks was arrested and treated badly by the Montgomery police. In 1955 women who rode the buses in Montgomery were arrested for refusing to give up their seats to white men and women. Another woman named Jo Ann Robinson made handbills and handed them out to college students, that handbill told people to stay off the buses for one whole day. Instead of staying on the buses for one day, Martin Luther King, Jr boycotted the buses for a whole year. People…

Segregation Case Involving Bus Ride Dimon Brown Montgomery, Alabama- Rosa Parks, a negro woman, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus and was arrested. She had been tired after a long day working as a seamstress in a department store. When she got on the bus to go home, she sat on the fifth row- the first row of the colored section. The bus became full which meant that the seats nearer the front were given to the white passengers. The the bus driver, James Blake ordered…

The Montgomery Bus Boycott started in December 1955. This brought much attention to Miss Rosa Parks. Very intriguingly, all African American citizens refused to ride the bus, due to Parks being arrested for refusing to give up her seat. This was a big deal. It upset many blacks and they refused to ride the bus any longer. Since black Americans refused to ride the bus, it caused serious financial problems for the bus company. They had to desegregate the buses. The Montgomery bus company faced…

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began with Rosa Parks' refusal to give up a seat on a city bus, started the Civil Rights Movement and has continued to affect American society today. This influential event has changed the social views of Americans and has shown what they are capable of, while introducing men and women who are now familiarly known across the nation. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was making her way home from the Montgomery Fair Department Store. Parks had been new in town, and…

about the Bus Boycott had 40,000 people get on there bus in two days?90% of black people stayed off of white peoples bus so they lost money.Martin Luther King jr said “Rosa Parks character is impeccable and her dedication was deep-rooted she was one of the most respected in the negro community. This Paragraph will explain what the Montgomery Bus Boycott did.Black leaders organised meetings and road on the boycott .African American residents mobilized around the boycott .For the Bus Boycott to…

It is still recognized as one of the most defining moments in the history of Black people in the United States. In protests carried in Alabama against racial discrimination, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was executed by African Americans who refused to board buses because of the segregated seating rule. This was in December of the year 1955 (McGhee, 2015). The demonstrations, led by the then youthful Martin Luther King Junior, was one of the pioneering activities that gave birth to the Civil…

Freedom Riders bus ride protests were inspired in 1947 by Bayard Rustin and George Houser and was sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Like the Freedom Rides of 1961, the road to Reconciliation was intended to test the Supreme Court ruling that banned black people from interstate travel; better known as the ruling of Boynton v Virginia. This protest was to protest for racial segregation against the laws of interstate travel. Rustin, along with three other men were arrested and…

Claudette Colvin was on important civil rights activism who made significant impact on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Who was Claudette Colvin? Claudette Colvin was a black American woman who stood up to the people for her seat. On September 5, 1939 Claudette colvin was born in New York City. Colvin loved her school where she work hard at. Claudette has a sister name Velma and her brother name Rondy and she have children. Her mother and father…

The Montgomery bus boycott begantook place on December 5, 1955, and lasted until December 21, 1956. It all started when, Rosa Parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat. She was arrested because of the Montgomery, Alabama, ordinance that required blacks to sit in the back of the bus and if the white section of the bus was full, the African Americans must yield their seats to white people. The day Rosa Parks was arrested the whole white section of the bus was full, and a white male made…