The Montgomery Bus Boycott was not as instantaneous as you may think. There were more people arrested, violent approach of the white people to stop the boycott, and much more. The Montgomery Bus Boycott didn’t start off with just Rosa Parks getting arrested, there were at least a dozen more before her, in Montgomery alone. Rosa Parks was not really the reason why the boycott was started. They chose Rosa, over the two arrested a week before her, becauseshe was a better candidate then they were.
The main cause for the Montgomery Bus Boycott was segregation on the buses. The black community had to pay in the front and exit the bus and re-enter in the back entrance. Sometimes they would leave without them (History.com). The White people would fill …show more content…
In November of 1956 they said it was unconstitutional and struck down laws requiring segregation on buses. This brought bus segregation and encouraged other cities to do the same. In the New York Times entry from December 22nd,1956 posted on PBS Eyes on the Prize site it states “...For the first time in this "cradle of the Confederacy" all the Negroes entered buses through the front door. They sat in the first empty seats they saw, in the front of the buses and in the rear. They did not get up to give a white passenger a seat. And whites sat with …show more content…
This was the beginning of the end of the Jim Crow laws in the south. This act shined a spot light on Martin Luther King Jr. as he helped lead the Montgomery Improvement Association. On December 5th, 1955 the night of Rosa Parks’ trial, he made a speech, at Holt Street Baptist Chrch, to help lengthen the protest and stated “I want it to be known that we’re going to work with grim and bold determination to gain justice on the buses in this city. And we are not wrong.… If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong.” This meeting prolonged the protest that ended 13 months later when they decided to stop a few months after bus segregation
The main cause for the Montgomery Bus Boycott was segregation on the buses. The black community had to pay in the front and exit the bus and re-enter in the back entrance. Sometimes they would leave without them (History.com). The White people would fill …show more content…
In November of 1956 they said it was unconstitutional and struck down laws requiring segregation on buses. This brought bus segregation and encouraged other cities to do the same. In the New York Times entry from December 22nd,1956 posted on PBS Eyes on the Prize site it states “...For the first time in this "cradle of the Confederacy" all the Negroes entered buses through the front door. They sat in the first empty seats they saw, in the front of the buses and in the rear. They did not get up to give a white passenger a seat. And whites sat with …show more content…
This was the beginning of the end of the Jim Crow laws in the south. This act shined a spot light on Martin Luther King Jr. as he helped lead the Montgomery Improvement Association. On December 5th, 1955 the night of Rosa Parks’ trial, he made a speech, at Holt Street Baptist Chrch, to help lengthen the protest and stated “I want it to be known that we’re going to work with grim and bold determination to gain justice on the buses in this city. And we are not wrong.… If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong.” This meeting prolonged the protest that ended 13 months later when they decided to stop a few months after bus segregation