Montgomery Alabama December 1 1955 December 20 1956 Plessy v Ferguson versus Brown V Board of Education Segregation Still at large in the South Sarah Keys v Carolina Coach Company ID: 529094
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery, Alabama
December 1, 1955 – December 20, 1956Slide2
Plessy v. Ferguson versus Brown V. Board of Education.
Segregation Still at large in the South.
Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.
BackgroundSlide3
Whites sat in the front.
Blacks sat in the rear.
Bus SegregationSlide4
Rosa Parks, Secretary of Montgomery Chapter of NAACP arrested.
Bus driven by James F. Blake
When ordered to move back so that Whites might sit, Parks refused.Found guilty on Dec. 5, fined $10, but appealed.
December 1, 1955Slide5
E.D. Nixon – President of Montgomery Chapter NAACP
Between Park’s arrest and trial organized a meeting of local ministers.
Founded the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).
(later) Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. agrees to lead the MIA.
Creating the BoycottSlide6
The Women’s Political Council issues their statement in protest of Park’s arrest.
King holds mass meeting to get the support of the Black community.
All agreed - The boycott had begun in full.
The Boycott BeginsSlide7
Buses received few, if any passengers.
Blacks were using Carpools, Bicycles, Walking, or even Mule- or Horse-drawn carriages.
Across the country, black churches collected money, and shoes to help support the boycott.
How it workedSlide8
A group that was opposed to racial integration.
During the boycott, its membership doubled.
Its members sometimes resorted to violence:Firebomb attacks
Beatings and Physical assaults on boycottersThis was countered by King’s stance on ‘nonviolence’
White Citizens’ CouncilSlide9
Destruction at Ralph Abernathy’s houseSlide10
King and 89 others were indicted on a city ordinance
They turned themselves in instead.
King ordered a fine or over a year in jail.Served less than two weeks.
IndictmentSlide11
Browder V. Gayle:
February
1, 1956 – District Court case filed to end segregation within Montgomery Transit System.
June 4, 1956 – The District Court ruled in favor – was undone by an appeal.
November 13, 1956 – Supreme Court ruled in favor – Allowed black passengers to sit anywhere they wanted.
VictorySlide12
Darby, Jean (1990). Martin Luther King, Jr.. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group. pp.
41-42.
"Montgomery Bus Boycott: The story of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement". Montgomeryboycott.com. Retrieved 2013-1-25.
King, Jr., Martin Luther. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York: Harper & Row, 1958. Print.
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