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Title: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955


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The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
2
Aim
  • Examine the significance of the Montgomery Bus
    Boycott to the Civil Rights Movement

3
Montgomery, Alabama
  • In the Southern states there was a policy of
    segregation on buses.
  • White passengers would sit in the front rows of
    the bus, black passengers towards the back.
  • If the front section of the bus was full, black
    passengers were expected to give up their seats.
  • On the 1st December, 1955, a Black woman called
    Rosa Parks challenged this segregation.
  • Rosa Parks was an active member of the NAACP.
  • Rosa was arrested for refusing to give up her
    seat to a white person.

4
Rosa Parks
  • Her arrest led to a huge outcry amongst the Black
    community.
  • 50 Black church leaders, including Martin Luther
    King met in a Montgomery church to discuss how to
    respond to this situation.
  • They encouraged the local people to BOYCOTT the
    buses.
  • Blacks made up 70 of the passengers on local
    buses.
  • Their demands were first come, first served,
    Black bus drivers and better manners from white
    bus drivers.

5
The Impact of the Boycott
  • The boycott lasted for 381 days and the bus
    companies lost a huge amount of money.
  • During this time Martin Luther King inspired
    local people to sustain the boycott and campaign
    for their civil rights.
  • The buses were officially desegregated in
    December 1956 the bus companies had already
    started to desegregate they could not afford to
    lose anymore passengers.

6
  • There comes a time when people get tired
  • tired of being segregated and humiliated tired
  • of being kicked about by the brutal feet of
  • oppression For many years we have shown
  • amazing patience. We have sometimes given
  • our white brothers the idea that we liked
  • the way we were being treated.
  • One of the great glories of democracy is
  • the right to protest from right If you will
  • protest courageously and yet with dignity and
  • Christian love, when the history books are
  • written in future generations, the historians
  • will pause and say, There lived a great people,
  • the black people.

7
Change had been achieved using peaceful,
non-violent protest
The boycott only ended one area of segregation
Impact of the Boycott
Rosa Parks lost her job and moved to the northern
state of Michigan
Martin Luther King emerged as the leader of the
Civil Rights Movement
8
Rosa Parks
  • Rosa Parks continued to speak for the Civil
    Rights cause throughout her life.
  • She received various awards the Congressional
    Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  • In 1999, Time magazine named her as one of the 20
    most influential and iconic figures of the 20th
    century.
  • She died on 24th October, 2005 and in Montgomery
    and Detroit the front seats of the city buses
    were reserved with black ribbons.

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Tasks
  • Copy and complete the flow chart from page 58 of
    your textbook Free At Last.
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