Montgomery Alabama bus boycott, 1955
The Montgomery Bus Boycott of Montgomery, Alabama is known as the crucial catalyst that jump-started the Civil Rights Movement.
When Rosa Parks, a well-respected secretary of the local NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man as she returned home from work, Parks was arrested. In 1955, African
Americans were still required by a Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinance to sit in the back half of city buses and to give their seats to white riders if the front half of the bus, reserved for whites, was full. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, which began a chain reaction of similar boycotts
The Montgomery Bus Boycott of Montgomery, Alabama is known as the crucial catalyst that jump-started the Civil Rights Movement.
When Rosa Parks, a well-respected secretary of the local NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man as she returned home from work, Parks was arrested. In 1955, African
Americans were still required by a Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinance to sit in the back half of city buses and to give their seats to white riders if the front half of the bus, reserved for whites, was full. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, which began a chain reaction of similar boycotts