Which boycott? The most famous civil rights boycott was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, in Montgomery, Alabama, but African-Americans in Atlanta and a number of other cities also held boycotts of public transportation after the US Supreme Court overturned Montgomery bus segregation statutes as unconstitutional in 1956.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1943. This led to a boycott of the buses in the city by African Americans.
Montgomery bus boycott
It was called the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott was inspired by Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to for a white man on December 1, 1955. African-Americans walked or rode in African-American-owned taxis from December 5, 1955, until the boycott ended on December 20, 1956.
Racial segregation on the Montgomery city buses
The African-Americans that lived in Montgomery, Alabama staged a nonviolent protest in the form of a boycott of the Montgomery Bus System. As a result of this nonviolent protest (and the US Supreme Court decision Browder v. Gayle, (1956)), African-Americans were allowed to sit anywhere they wanted on a bus. This effort was a great victory for Dr. Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonviolent protest to change the norms of society that had existed in the South.
The Montgomery bus boycott took place in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955-56, in reaction to Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the organizers of the boycott that lasted 381 days.
Rosa Park sparked the Montgomery bus boycott by sitting at the front of a bus in violation of local laws in 1955.
Rosa Park sparked the Montgomery bus boycott by sitting at the front of a bus in violation of local laws in 1955.
The Montgomery bus boycott allowed for a push in the Civil Rights movement for African Americans. Without this boycott, then African Americans would of gained equal later then they did.
The Montgomery bus boycott allowed for a push in the Civil Rights movement for African Americans. Without this boycott, then African Americans would of gained equal later then they did.
The Boycott proved the power they has if they joined together