After Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on the bus, the Montgomery Improvement Association led a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the president of the organization.
He was elected president of The Southern Leadership Conference.
Martin Luther King never ran for president.
Martin Luther King Jr. was new to the community therefor, he had rarely any enemies.
The Montgomery bus boycott began in response to Rosa Parks' December 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to give her seat to a white man.Many people played leadership roles in the boycott (see Related Questions).The original organizers were Jo Ann Robinson, an English instructor at Alabama State College and President of Montgomery's Women's Political Council, and E. D. Nixon, President of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.On December 4, they called a meeting of community leaders to discuss holding a one-day boycott of the Montgomery City Lines, Inc., bus company. During the meeting, the group formed a new alliance, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), to which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was elected Chairman and President. Dr. King subsequently became the leader of the civil rights action that lasted 381 days, resulting in a US Supreme Court ruling (Browder v. Gayle, (1956)) denouncing segregation as unconstitutional.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was elected President of the MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association) that was established to organize the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and 1956.
Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader and pastor of the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, helped Martin Luther King organize the bus boycott. Abernathy was elected Vice-President of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the citizens' organization assembled to manage the boycott. King was elected President of the MIA.
Montgomery Improvement Association was created in 1955.
Martin Luther King Jr. was whom the Montgomery Improvement Association choose as its leader.
Martin Luther King Jr. was whom the Montgomery Improvement Association choose as its leader.
Martin Luther King Jr. was NOT elected president!
Dr. King was never President of the United States, but he was President of the Montgomery Improvement Association, formed on December 5, 1955. The group consisted of African-American ministers and community leaders whose mission was to "improve the general status of Montgomery, to improve race relations, and to uplift the general tenor of the community."Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a charismatic speaker and dynamic leader, was elected Chairman-President at the association's first meeting.
After Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on the bus, the Montgomery Improvement Association led a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the president of the organization.
M I A Montgomery Improvement Association
Jo Ann Robinson (President, Women's Political Council)E. D. Nixon (President, local chapter of NAACP)Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Elected President of the Montgomery Improvement Association)Ralph Abernathy (Vice-President of association)Johnnie Carr (civil rights leader, succeeded Dr. King as President)To view a list of other important participants, see Related Questions, below.
He was elected president of The Southern Leadership Conference.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 26 years old when he was elected to lead the Montgomery bus boycott.