Montgomery Bus Boycott

Honor can be seen as a kind of action that is worth being respected, and it can also be seen as a kind of spiritual virtue, which means thinking about others instead of focusing on self-interest. Martin Luther King Jr., a black man, was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, who competed for the rights of the black people and called for racial equality. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail several times due to his political beliefs, and his opponents always saw him as a…

The Bus Ride That Changed It All When Rosa Parks set foot in that Montgomery city bus after a long day of working as a seamstress on December 1 of 1996, she didn’t expect her life, and others, to change forever. Back in the early to mid 1900’s, segregation played a big role in some people’s everyday lives. Rosa Parks’s family was partially the reason that she refused to give up her seat that day. Rosa Parks has earned many awards for her act of heroism. Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat…

protests to achieve social change and end segregation. There were many instances of black protests during the Civil Rights Movement. One of the first, and the one in which Martin Luther King, Jr became a prominent figure in black history, was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This was triggered after the arrest of Rosa Parks, a…

Alabama State Teacher’s College. She has to cut short in her high school diploma because her mother became very ill. In 1932, she married with Raymond Parks who supported and encouraged her formal education, so she graduated in 2 years later. The Montgomery city segregated many years for white people and black people such as school, churches, and stores. Usually, it signed “For Colored Only” or “For White Only”. It…

second-class citizens by having that system, it helped keep blacks and whites segregated and allowed police brutality on African American citizens. An example of the Jim Crow laws being enforced is when Rosa Park was removed from a bus for refusing to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white…

Plessy v. Ferguson. On August 28, 1955 a fourteen-year-old boy named Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi. The same year on December 1st, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to vacate her seat in the white section of the bus. This event would lead toward the bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr.. On the 9th of September, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. On September 3, 1957 Governor…

losing their lives. This didn’t stop the rise of black activist such as Malcom X, Bayard Rustin, Rosas Parks, and Dr. Martin King Luther Jr. These activist lead a number of different protests during this era. These peaceful methods included: sit-ins, boycotts, and marches. With these protest came many forms of harassment from people with a different…

became a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott. A few days later, Martin Luther King Jr. was elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. He became the official spokesman for the boycott. In 1957, Martin Luther King Jr. formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. They talked about fighting segregation and achieving civil rights. A year later, he wrote his first book “ Stride Toward Freedom.” The book was a memoir of the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1959, he went on a book…

For instance, prosecution of blacks for not sitting in the back of the bus making room for whites, they were tired of society telling them what to do. So they took matters into their hands, they started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After 381 days of boycotts and protesting, they permanently integrated the bus systems. It has not gone so smoothly for them before the boycotts and after the success of gaining the attention of the government. But, they knew, if they chose the…

black He is one of the main people that led the civil rights movement in the south. He gave great speeches across the country that moved many people. He was inspired by Rosa parks when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to the white person. he also helped star the boycott against the buses that were segregated. Until one day the supreme court banned segregated busses in the whole country saying that it was illegal for the buses to be segregated. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also led about…