Montgomery Bus Boycotts The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Alabama was a crucial event in the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement. in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956.

  1. On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery." According to news CNN. The United Airlines flight force doctor initiates first judicial action, This situation is related to what happened to Rosa Parks because she went through the same situation to take a seat where she was not allowed to sit, the doctor was forcibly removed from the plane sitting in a seat where he could not be."

From 1955 until his death in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was the dominant leader of the US civil rights movement. Following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, the Rev. Dr. King believed that nonviolent protest is the most effective weapon against a racist and unjust society. But it required rallying people to his cause. Here are some of the most revolutionary peaceful protests King led.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat so that white passengers could make use of it. When Rosa Parks’s arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, during which the black citizens of Montgomery refused to ride the city’s buses in protest over the bus system’s policy of racial segregation. It was the first mass-action of the modern civil rights era, and served as an inspiration to other civil rights activists across the nation.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. believed that nonviolent protest is the most effective weapon against a racist and unjust society. But it required rallying people to his cause. Here are some of the most revolutionary peaceful protests King led, Dr. King and several other civil rights leaders organized three marches from Selma, Ala., to the state capital of Montgomery, in a bid for voting rights for all.

newspaper, published a front-page article on the planned action. Approximately 40,000 African-American bus riders–the majority of the city’s black bus riders–boycotted the system the next day. On the afternoon of December 5, black leaders met to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The group elected Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-68), the 26-year-old-pastor of Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, as its president, and decided to continue the boycott until the city met its demands.

APA CITATIONS

1.http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott?scrlybrkr=186c3385

2.https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-8/apush-civil-rights-movement/a/the-montgomery-bus-boycott

3. http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/social-protests

4. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott?scrlybrkr=186c3385

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