African American integrate its buses.
The nation's highest court ordered the bus company to integrate its buses. In doing so, it sent a powerful message: African American people could no longer be treated as second-class citizens.
The Montgomery, Alabama, city buses were desegregated on December 20, 1956, as the result of a court order arising from the Supreme Court's decision in Browder v. Gayle, (1956).
They hoped to use economic pressure to end segregation on the buses.
The boycott began on December 1, 1955 in reaction to Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man, and lasted 385 days.The Montgomery bus boycott ended on December 20, 1956, the day the city of Montgomery received a court order mandating integration of the buses.
they boycotted the buses they refused to ride segregated buses
The nation's highest court ordered the bus company to integrate its buses. In doing so, it sent a powerful message: African American people could no longer be treated as second-class citizens.
The nation's highest court ordered the bus company to integrate its buses. In doing so, it sent a powerful message: African American people could no longer be treated as second-class citizens.
The Montgomery, Alabama, city buses were desegregated on December 20, 1956, as the result of a court order arising from the Supreme Court's decision in Browder v. Gayle, (1956).
An organised group determined NOT to use the buses in Montgomery.
The nation's highest court ordered the bus company to integrate its buses. In doing so, it sent a powerful message: African American people could no longer be treated as second-class citizens.
Racial segregation on the Montgomery city buses
The Montgomery, Alabama, city buses became integrated on December 20, 1956, as a result of a successful year-long boycott by the African-American community, the US Supreme Court decision declaring segregation in public transportation to be unconstitutional, and a US District Court order telling the company to integrate.
They hoped to use economic pressure to end segregation on the buses.
In January of 1959 desegregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama ended. A group of ministers challenged the segregation law and the federal district court ruled in favor of the ministers.
The boycott began on December 1, 1955 in reaction to Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man, and lasted 385 days.The Montgomery bus boycott ended on December 20, 1956, the day the city of Montgomery received a court order mandating integration of the buses.
they boycotted the buses they refused to ride segregated buses
The Montgomery bus boycott ended on December 20, 1956, the day the city of Montgomery received a court order mandating integration of the buses. The boycott began on December 5, 1955 in reaction to Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man. In all it lasted 381 days.