The bus boycott affected the city bus line since the population of riders were the African Americans housekeepers, maids, and other workers . They kept the boycott going for a year before the law was changed.

An example is when many passengers object to a bus company increase their fares. The passengers may then get together and boycott the bus company, refusing to ride on the buses, so losing the bus company money. The boycott is hoped that the bus company relents and lessens or even stop the increase.

It gave Black people an equal seat on the bus. There are no more divided sections like there were. There's no more White Section and Colored section on the buses. They can sit anywhere they want to now.

The Alabama bus boycott was started when Rosa Parks was asked to get out of her seat for a white man. She had been sitting in the white section of the bus (buses were segregated), but the white section was full and when Parks was asked to move she kindly replied ,"no." She was sent to jail and this infuriated the African Americans and they decided to boycott the buses. They went for 382 days without riding the bus, and finally Rosa Parks was let out of jail, and Jim Crow Laws (legal name for segregation) were "kicked off" the bus. Also martin Luther kings house was bombed.

refrused to give up her seat rosa parks

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.

it demonstrated the power of organized action against racism

he was the leader and organised it

Montgomery integrated its bus system.

The Southern Manifesto was signed.

Martin Luther King Jr. came into national prominence.

The governor of Arkansas allowed black students.

the W.P.C. (Women's Political Council) president, Robinson and two students stayed up all night to print 50,00 flyers calling for the one day bus boycott. this one day bus boycott lasted nearly thirteen months, almost putting the bus company out of business because 3/4 bus riders were black.

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The majority of bus riders were African Americans committed to the boycott.

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.

The Montgomery bus boycott was caused when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Because she refused, police came and arrested her. Soon after, Martin Luther King Jr. led a boycott against the public transportation system because it was unfair. Eventually the issue was brought to the supreme court and racial segregation on buses was deemed unconstotutional. Soon after,King was seen sharing a bus seat with Rev. Glen Smiley, a white man.

Thousands. The membership of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s organization to end segregation on Montgomery city buses has been estimated at 40,000-50,000. The 1956 African-American population of Montgomery was also estimated at 40,000, so the membership numbers may be somewhat inflated.

On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling. This victory led to a city ordinance that allowed black bus passengers to sit virtually anywhere they wanted, and the boycott officially ended December 20, 1956. The boycott of the buses had lasted for 381 days. Martin Luther King, Jr. capped off the victory with a magnanimous speech to encourage acceptance of the decision. The Montgomery Bus Boycott also had ramifications that reached far beyond the desegregation of public buses and provided more than just a positive answer to the Supreme Court's action against racial segregation. The Montgomery Bus Boycott reverberated throughout the United States and stimulated the national Civil Rights Movement.

Violence against the boycott leader

Arrest of the boycott leader

Appeal of a federal court decision supporting the boycott

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 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.

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. During the meeting, the group formed a new alliance, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), to which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was elected President and leader of the new civil rights movement.

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 and Education Fund attorneys, Robert Carter and Thurgood Marshall, whose successful campaign against segregation in education lead to the US 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.

There was nothing to do about it. Some of the KKK threatened the people who boycotted the buses but they just kept going and they organized. MLK kept them going because it took a year before the buses changed.

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.