Montgomery, Alabama

The Montgomery Bus Boycott is considered one of the first large-scale demonstrations against segregation in the United States during the civil-rights movement (History). Beginning in 1955, african americans stopped riding the public busses in protest of being made to sit in the back of the bus in the “colored section.” Instead, they either rode in cars, rode bikes, or walked to show that they no longer wanted to be treated as second class citizens. The boycott was important to the civil rights…

Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She moved to Pine Level, Alabama with her parents Leona McCauley and James McCauley. Her mother was a teacher who valued education very much and Rosa’s father was a carpenter. Sylvester McCauley Rosa’s brother was born on August 20, 1915, and shortly after her parents separated. At a very young age Rosa dealt with racial discrimination. Rosa soon went on to attend a segregated one room school from grade 1 to 6, where…

out of Selma to Montgomery on U.S. Route 80 for the fight to be able to vote. These people that were traveling to Montgomery are called “foot soldiers”. These black and white men and women were fighting for the rights of black civilians for all of the right reasons, but the rest of the community did not want these men and women protesting. This is the story of the famous “foot soldiers”. The “foot soldiers” were mostly African Americans that traveled to Montgomery from Selma, Alabama to fight…

in Atlanta, Georgia. King later lived in Montgomery, Alabama. Advocates of The Montgomery bus boycott formed the Montgomery Improvement Association, King as the leader. One of his most famous speeches was his “I Had a Dream” speech. Also, he participated in the March on Washington in 1963. He was killed by James Earl Ray. Martin Luther King died on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Rosa Parks- Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is known for refusing to give her…

Rosa’s childhood was full of discrimination. According to ‘Rosa Parks Biography’, “Rosa went on to attend a segregated, one-room school in Pine Level, Alabama, that often lacked many school supplies such as desks. African American students were forced to walk from home to school starting from the 1st grade through the 6th grade, while the city of Pine Level provided a bus transportation as well as a new…

When refusing to give her seat up, Rosa didn’t know she was making history. She was born as Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama on “Feb 4, 1913” (History Staff, 2009). Growing up with her mom she moved to Pine Level, Alabama and she often experienced racial discrimination and racial equality there. The only school she attended in Montgomery were segregated schools. At a young age, her mother taught her how to read. She married at the age of 19 to a man named Raymond Parks. At the time…

In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated Dec. 21, 1956. As newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., is instrumental in leading the boycott.” The Bus Boycott was a big event in the south back then as for they refused to get on buses and some whites lost jobs for this.“The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on…

verbally abused, and even killed (ANON, new world encyclopaedia, 2014), subsequently Rosa Parks was arrested and jailed., however after she was bailed out by the NAACP the next morning and began planning the protest against segregation in Montgomery, Alabama and thus began the Bus…

On December 1. 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African woman who worked as a seamstress, boarded this Montgomery City bus to go home fromwork . American Black residents of Montgomery often avoided urban buses if possible because they found the Negroes-in-back policy so degrading.When a white man entered the bus,and there was not any more seats the bus driver asked four blacks in the first of serveral rows to stand three complied . Mrs. Parks, who was an active member of the local NAACP. refused…

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…