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500 people came to support Rosa and in the end she was found guilty of violating a local ordinance and fined ten dollars and well as four dollar court fee (Rosa Parks). The boycott towards the Montgomery Bus system lasted several months, it crippled finances of its transit company. The boycott started on 5 December 1955, African Americans were asked to use any other type of transpiration other than the bus, and it worked. People were arrested, houses were bombed and insurance for the city taxi system had been cancelled. Although it was hard to get their point across it turned out to be very successful. Rosa Parks having been dedicated to do a small task sparked a new revolution. None of this would have helped if Rosa had decided to give her set up with the others on the bus. As Congressman Juth Conyers said, “She is a living gem!” (Rosa

The bus boycott greatly impacted many of the people depicted in this movie. To begin, the bus boycott impacted Odessa Cotter. Since she decided to participate, she had to walk to work which was a long distance away from her home. This caused her feet to hurt, her job performance to fall, and her home life to be shaken up. She was late to work on multiple occasions, and was very tired when she was there. Odessa also got home later so it was difficult for her to tend to the house and her three children. The boycott also affected her relationship with Miriam and Norman Thompson. For example, it brought Odessa and Miriam closer together. This is because Miriam would drive Odessa to work on certain occasions. In contrast, the bus boycott put a wedge between Odessa and Norman. This is because Norman was racist and wanted to end the boycott. When he found out that Odessa was willingly participating in the boycott, he became distraught. Also, when he found out Miriam had been driving Odessa, he respected her even less. This is how the bus boycott affected Odessa Cotter.

For more than a year, the African-American community in Montgomery successfully boycotted the city bus company, Montgomery City Bus Lines, which resulted in the loss of much needed revenue to support the city expenses. The Bus Boycott was the impetus for many whites to act violently towards African Americans in Montgomery. Being an avid member of the NAACP, King became much involved in the boycott. King's non-violent approach towards the boycott obviously drew a lot of attention. King's home in Montgomery was firebombed by openly racist members of the Ku Klux Klan [KKK] (Norrell 1). Seeing that the bus

supremacist group. The arrests largely brought an end to the busing-related violence. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a very important and vital part in the civil rights movement for many reasons. First, it was the one of the first mass protests on civil rights in the U.S. The Montgomery bus boycott set the stage for other large protests outside the court system to bring fair treatment for African Americans. Second, Martin Luther King came up as a prominent national leader of the civil rights movement while also.keeping true to his commitment to nonviolent protest. Shortly after the boycott' s end, he

The montgomery Bus boycott is a major milestone in civil rights history because it was a civil rights movement international resistance for radical segregation and helped changed the view of disorderly conduct toward African American people in America In document # 6 Malcolm X says “ The Black man should take control of the politics of his own community and control the politicians who are in his own community”. This situation was successful because African American men did start to take control of things like the Civil Rights revolution. Although it wasn’t enough it was still there for

In December of 1955, Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus and refused to give up her seat to a white male. She was later arrested and put in jail. This caused the black people of Montgomery to initiate a boycott, the refusal to use the services of the bus company. They did this in order to gain

Due to that success the Montgomery Improvement Association, led by a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr., planned a permanent boycott until their demands were met. They asked for courteous treatment, seating on a first come, first serve basis, and black bus drivers for mostly black bus routes. Businesses and private homes started to feel the effects of the boycott. Whites started to fight back. Blacks were arrested for walking the streets. Dr. King's home was bombed. The boycott lasted eleven months before there were any positive results. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation on Alabama buses was unconstitutional. The boycott was an astounding success and it brought Dr. Martin Luther King to prominence. 1

African American worked together during this boycott by walking miles to work or other destinations, this lasted a year. It ended when a lawsuit was filed against bus segregation, and federal district court declared segregated seating on buses to be unconstitutional. Another action that was taken by an individual to help overcome segregation was the Brown v. Board of Education/Little Rock Nine. Little Rock Nine was a group of African American high schoolers who challenged Jim Crow/ segregation in the public schools. To fight against segregation in education, a lawsuit called Brown v. Board of Education was brought to the Supreme Court.

1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycotts 
African-American woman Rosa Parks's arrest after her refusal to move to the back of a bus (as required under city law in Montgomery, Alabama) triggers a citywide boycott of the bus system.

Upon Rosa Parks’ victory in the Supreme Court, which ruled that segregation was illegal, the boycott ended. “The boycott was the first organized mass protest by blacks and catapulted their leader, Martin Luther King Jr., a young Montgomery Baptist minister, into the national spotlight”. King, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, preached nonviolent resistance to Jim Crow laws and other discriminatory policies, and was a leading force in the fight against discrimination and long held segregationist traditions.

Yet, even though legally segregation among public schools has been struck down, this does not end segregation. Segregation continues in the south not only in-state public schools but also in public accommodation and transportation. Due to the continued discrimination in transportation in December 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycotts began after the arrest of Ms. Rosa Parks. Activist, Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat at the front of the bus to a white passenger. After her refusal Ms. Parks was arrested and sparked the boycott of Montgomery’s local buses for over a year, only to be stopped by a Supreme Court

The black church did several things for the boycott. Some of those things are it put Martin Luther King in the spot light of the civil rights movement. The church also help educate the black people on their own situation. Some that attended the meetings in the black church were able to shed the fear they had held for a long period of time.

In December of 1955, during the civil rights Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama. Police captured Parks since she declined to surrender her seat to a white man on a Montgomery City transportation bus. News paper highlights "City Charge Faced By Negro Bus Rider"After the capture, blacks all through the city joined together in a huge rally outside one of the city's Baptist church to hear the twenty-six year old minister Martin Luther King Jr. he took a stand in to speak up and speak out against segregation, Parks' capture, and the Jim Crow law she had disregarded. The black leaders also organized the Montgomery one day bus boycott turned out to be a success, The blacks came together by car pooling to help people to get around it they were unable

The NAACP?s aim of the boycott was to show its members and black people nationwide what was achievable if they acted together as a whole. Many black people took this message on board and started to act as a community.

The 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott, the result of Rosa Parks protest, ended on December 20th, 1956. This was one of the most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history. Because of Rosa Parks' brave protest, she was awarded the Martin Luther King Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom given by President Bill Clinton on September 9, 1999 and Congressional Medal in 1999.