Martin Luther King Jr. And The Montgomery Bus

Little did Rosa know that a simple act of courage would change the course of American history. That day she was arrested for violating Montgomery's transportation laws and took her to jail. She was soon released on a one-hundred dollar bail. A trial was scheduled for December 5, 1955. Her arrest brought a protest of seven thousand blacks in her community. Her community was small but every African American member of her town was sure to be protesting for her release that day. This protest rapidly started the creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association. The most involved and determined person besides Parks in this movement was Martin Luther King Jr. would call for a one-day bus boycott which ended up extending after Rosa was found guilty. Rosa was fined ten dollars. Rosa once again refused to pay any money and appealed her case. Rosa Parks and her husband both lost their jobs and were harassed and ridiculed for what happened on the bus. Most whites would say she made a fool out of herself and she embarrassed

The start of King's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement began in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and was jailed. Community leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association and asked King to be the leader. The organization would urge blacks to boycott the buses and use other means of transportation. The boycott lasted 381 days. On November 13, 1956 the Supreme Court declared that Alabama's bus segregation was unconstitutional and on December 21, 1956 buses were desegregated. (Michael).

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, one of the leaders of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] refused to give up her seat to a white person on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, despite being reprimanded by the driver (Schulke 166). Montgomery, Alabama was known for its terrible treatment of blacks. The buses in particular had been a source of tension between the city and black citizens for many years (Schulke, 167). As a result of refusing to give up her seat, Rosa Parks was arrested. Rosa Parks' popularity among the black community, proved to be the spark that ignited the non-violent Civil Rights Movement (Norrell 2).

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

As a few white passengers boarded the bus and the white sections were already full so the driver shouted back at four black people including Rosa Parks “Move y'all, I want those two seats”. As this demand was made by the driver 3 of the bus riders obeyed to what was shouted back, however Rosa Parks remained in her seat and was determined not to move. She was arrested following the bus drivers order and fined ten dollars. This, however small incited a great wave of bus boycotts which in Montgomery black people chose not to ride the bus for a period of 381 days. This still to date is known as the moment in which the civil rights movement started to gain headway. It was the will of one woman who decided it was time for black people to take a stand and from this point on Martin Luther King was assigned to take this boycott on. Although he was assigned to take this on people also felt as he was young, fresh and people had not formulated enough of an opinion of him, there was little room for him to be hated yet so he posed as the right figure to lead this. After the many days of boycotting the case of this transport issue in Alabama went to the Supreme Court. Here it was decided that segregation was declared as unconstitutional so segregation by law was no

Since the Supreme Court case of Plessy Vs Ferguson way back in 1892, which ruled the separation of blacks and whites constitutional as long as all public facilities provided were “separate but equal,” the United States had been segregated. As with all other public facilities at the time, the busses in Montgomery Alabama were also subject to this segregation, and it wasn’t until 1956 with the beginning of what became to be known as the “Montgomery Bus

A year after the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa Parks refused to give up a seat on the bus in Alabama. Rosa Parks is a seamstress and a dedicated member of the NAACP when she was arrested and jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. Her action caused Jo Ann Robinson to organize a large-scale boycott of the Montgomery bus system to begin with for the protest three days later. Mass protests soon began across the nation. After decades of segregation and inequality, many African Americans had decided the time had come to demand equal rights. Approximately 40,000 African-American bus riders boycotted the system the next day, December 5. That afternoon, black leaders met to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The group elected Martin Luther King, Jr., 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. The boycott ended after 381 days, and not only Montgomery residents were granted equal access to bus seats, all the buses had been

The Montgomery Bus Boycott began with the public arrest of an African American woman and civil rights activist named Rosa Parks. As stated in Document A,”Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat down in the closest seat. It was one of the first rows of the section where blacks were not supposed to sit… The bus driver told Rosa Parks that she would have to give up her seat to a white person. She refused and was arrested.” Rosa’s arrest sparked a number of radical events that fought against racial inequality and segregation over the span of thirteen months. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful because it led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation among public transportation (especially buses) was unconstitutional. The Montgomery

As a result, many of Montgomery’s African American citizens protested her arrest by boycotting the cities public transportation systems. Because of her bravery in refusing to leave her seat, she gained national recognition and fame, They bus boycott lasted until 1956, when the Supreme Court that segregation of city buses was unconstitutional. This boycott became the first organized protest by African Americans in the South.

She sat in the first row of the “colored” section in the middle of the bus. There were many white men standing and demanded that Rosa, and other african americans, give up their seats. Three other African Americans gave up their seats, but Rosa remained seated. The driver asked Rosa again to give up her seat, but she again refused and remained seated. Rosa Parks was arrested for validating the Montgomery City Code. On the night Rosa was arrested Nixon, head of local NAACP, met with Martin and other civil rights leader to plan a citywide bus boycott. Martin was elected to lead the boycott because he was young and well-trained. Martin was also new to the community so had little enemies and felt he would have a strong credibility with the black

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

Some people could argue that Martin Luther King Jr achieved more for black Americans. He was seen as a great figure and leader for all of the suffering Afro Americans throughout the country. Martin Luther King did an extremely good job in controlling and carrying out the bus boycott. The bus boycott was an event which took place in Montgomery, Alabama. It was when a black middle aged woman, named Rosa Parks, who sat at the front of the bus and refused to move for a white person. There were other black Americans who had also done the same thing as Rosa Parks, however these people were not suitable candidates to lead a black rights campaign. Rosa Parks was a respected figure. She was also a part of the local NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People). Shortly after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat, a boycott was called for and 35,000 leaflets were created to spread the message of

On December 1, 1955, Ms. Parks was traveling on the bus after a long day of work when the driver of that bus asked her to give her seat to a white passenger. Parks’ unwillingness to give up her seat did land her in jail. After a few hours being in jail, Parks’ was allowed to leave with a bond. That was when the African American people started to boycott Montgomery's bus to protest her unfair arrest. The month they started the movement was winter, which made it hard on the people having to walk every day to work. However, it was not just the people going through some hardened time because the bus company did experience

Rosa Parks’ solitary act of refusing to stand for a white citizen on a bus proved to be the facilitator of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On December 1st 1955 Rosa Parks travelled on a bus after a day of work. At the time there was a system of segregation where the white and black citizens were allocated seating on transport. The black communities were assigned at the back in the “coloured section” while the whites were at the front of all vehicles. On this particular day, Rosa Parks sat in her assigned seat when the bus became full and four white citizens appeared. The bus driver ordered for Rosa to give her seat to the white citizens along with three other black counterparts. Rosa refused to obey this order whilst the other three followed the driver’s orders. She was arrested according to the US archives for “violating a city law requiring racial segregation of public buses “. The driver Joseph Blake believed that he

Nixon, head of the local NAACP was working on organizing a boycott on segregated busses, encouraging people to stay home from work or school, take a cab, or walk to work/school. Ads where placed in papers, and handbills were printed and handed out in African-American neighborhoods. Members of the African-American communities where asked to stay of buses on Monday, December 5, 1955, the day of Rosa’s trial, in protest of her arrest. With most African-Americans not riding the bus, organizers realized that a longer boycott might be successful. On the morning of December 5, a group of leaders from the Mt. Zoin Church in Montgomery to discuss strategies, and realized that there boycott will need a new organization and strong leadership. They had formed the Montgomery Improvement Association, MIA, electing Montgomery newcomer Martian Luther King Jr. as the minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. The MIA believed that Rosa Parks’ case would provide excellent opportunities to make further actions to make a real change. When Rosa arrived at the courthouse, the morning of December 5, she was greeted with a crowd of 500 local supporters, who rooted her on. After a 30 minute hearing Rosa was found guilty and was fined $10 and also had to pay a court fee of $4. Undoubtedly the biggest thing that happened that day. However, what Rosa’s trial triggered became a huge success. It became known as the Montgomery bus boycott. The city’s buses,