How would it feel to get arrested for not giving up a seat to someone else different from them? The public buses in Montgomery had white seats in the front and Negro seats in the back. If the front seats were all taken, then a White would take a seat from a Negro. The Negro could only get up for them or get arrested as mandatory. Segregation was so important to Montgomery, so the Negroes had to boycott the buses to prove a point. The Alabama Bus Boycott impacted the US through the implementation of civil rights and gave African Americans an equal amount of freedom.
Blacks and White people did everything separately in Montgomery based on the color of their skin. They were born in segregated hospitals and buried in different cemeteries. Also black and white citizens went to different churches, schools, movie …show more content…
Almost a year had gone by after the boycott started. Segregation on public buses was going to end soon, and no one could make any more rules about blacks sitting in a different seat than whites. Supreme Court had made the decision that created blacks can go with whites on the bus. On December 20, Montgomery's Mayor Gayle had to obey the law and let blacks have equal freedom as whites (Freedman, 2006). Any law that does have all citizens shouldn’t have the same rights, and have different amounts of protection was changed on June 5, 1956 because of the 14th Amendment (History.com Staff, 2010).
Most Negroes boycotted all buses to prove that they should have equal freedom as White people. African Americans have six different goals during the bus boycott. One of them was that African American's wanted to have combined schools with White Americans. They also wanted to have the same freedom as the whites with housing, employment, federal work programs, civil rights laws and voting. Now Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was president of the Montgomery Improvement
Blacks and White people did everything separately in Montgomery based on the color of their skin. They were born in segregated hospitals and buried in different cemeteries. Also black and white citizens went to different churches, schools, movie …show more content…
Almost a year had gone by after the boycott started. Segregation on public buses was going to end soon, and no one could make any more rules about blacks sitting in a different seat than whites. Supreme Court had made the decision that created blacks can go with whites on the bus. On December 20, Montgomery's Mayor Gayle had to obey the law and let blacks have equal freedom as whites (Freedman, 2006). Any law that does have all citizens shouldn’t have the same rights, and have different amounts of protection was changed on June 5, 1956 because of the 14th Amendment (History.com Staff, 2010).
Most Negroes boycotted all buses to prove that they should have equal freedom as White people. African Americans have six different goals during the bus boycott. One of them was that African American's wanted to have combined schools with White Americans. They also wanted to have the same freedom as the whites with housing, employment, federal work programs, civil rights laws and voting. Now Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was president of the Montgomery Improvement