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.
State of Alabama v. M. L. King, Jr.,(1956)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and 89 other community leaders were indicted on charges of violating a 1921 Conspiracy law that prohibited boycotting lawful businesses. Dr. King was found guilty of conspiracy, but none of the others went to trial. King was fined $500 plus $500 court costs, or sentenced to 386 days in jail.
Dr. King decided to appeal the case, converting the sentence into 386 days in jail; however, he remained out on his own recognizance while the matter was under consideration. The Alabama Court of Appeals rejected King's hearing in April 1957, because his lawyers missed the 60-day filing deadline. He ultimately paid the the fine, in December 1957.
The case related to the Montgomery bus boycott that reached the US Supreme Court was Browder v. Gayle, (1956). Dr. King wasn't a party to that suit.
For more information about Browder v. Gayle, (1956) and related information, see Related Questions, below.
Dr. King and 89 other community leaders were indicted on charges of violating a 1921 Conspiracy law that prohibited boycotting lawful businesses. Dr. King was found guilty of conspiracy, but none of the others went to trial. King was fined $500 plus $500 court costs, or sentenced to 386 days in jail.
Dr. King decided to appeal the case, converting the sentence into 386 days in jail; however, he remained out on his own recognizance while the matter was under consideration. The Alabama Court of Appeals rejected King's hearing in April 1957, because his lawyers missed the 60-day filing deadline. He ultimately paid the the fine, in December 1957.
The case related to the Montgomery bus boycott that reached the US Supreme Court was Browder v. Gayle, (1956). Dr. King wasn't a party to that suit.
Case:
State of Alabama v. M. L. King, Jr., (1956)
For more information about Browder v. Gayle, (1956) and related information, see Related Questions, below.
rosa parks got arrested
He got arrested for being the head of the Montgomery bus boycott
The name of the bus boycott was the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
They started when Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus.
Yes the Montgomery bus boycott did achieve its goals .
No, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was not in the 19th century. It was in the 20th century.
The Montgomery bus boycott
After Rosa Parks was arrested the African Americans of Montgomery boycotted the buses for nearly a year to get the law changed.
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.
no not no
Rosa Park sparked the Montgomery bus boycott by sitting at the front of a bus in violation of local laws in 1955.
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.