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Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Ms. Parks was well-respected within the African-American community, arousing outrage at the way she was treated by the bus company and police. African-American community leaders, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., met to discuss the situation on December 4, and planned a one-day boycott of the Montgomery public transit system for December 5, 1955. What started as a one-day event eventually stretched 381 days, until December 20, 1956, as the community determined not to ride the buses again until they were integrated.
Rosa Parks unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the segregation law in the Alabama state courts, where the appeals process threatened to drag on for years.
Local attorneys Fred Gray and Charles Langford consulted with NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys, Robert Carter and Thurgood Marshall, whose successful campaign against segregation in education lead to the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education,(1954). Carter and Marshall suggested choosing a new group of plaintiffs who had been discriminated against and abused by the busing company.
The resulting suit, Browder v. Gayle, (1956), resulted in the Supreme Court affirming the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama's ruling that the bus segregation was unconstitutional.
For more information about Browder v. Gayle, (1956) and Rosa Parks' court cases, see Related Questions, below.
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Why did Nixon get into trouble?
He got arrested for being the head of the Montgomery bus boycott
How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott affect society?
rosa parks got arrested
Name of Bus Boycott?
The name of the bus boycott was the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
What Act sparked the Montgomery bus boycott?
They started when Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus.
Did the Montgomery bus boycott achieve its goals?
Yes the Montgomery bus boycott did achieve its goals .
Was the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the 19th century?
No, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was not in the 19th century. It was in the 20th century.
What yearlong protest was started by the actions of Rosa Parks?
The Montgomery bus boycott
Why did the boycott of Montgomery bus compani bigin?
After Rosa Parks was arrested the African Americans of Montgomery boycotted the buses for nearly a year to get the law changed.
Who was the president of the MIA during the bus boycott?
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.
Who are all the who were in the Montgomery bus boycott?
no not no
What led to the bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama?
Rosa Park sparked the Montgomery bus boycott by sitting at the front of a bus in violation of local laws in 1955.
Who was President during the the Montgomery bus boycott?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office from January 1953 to January 1961; the Montgomery bus boycott occurred from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956.
