Montgomery Bus Boycotts

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Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Power point created by Robert L. Martinez Primary
Content Source The History of US, by Joy
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• Rosa Parks was a small, soft-voiced 43-year-old
  woman who wore rimless glasses and pulled her
  brown hair back in a bun.

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• Parks had been secretary of the Montgomery
  chapter of the NAACP, so she was well known to
  Montgomerys black community.

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• On the evening of December 1, 1955, Mrs. Parks
  was mostly just plain tired. She had put in a
  full day at work. She didnt feel well, and her
  neck and back hurt. She got on a bus and headed
  home.

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• In 1955, buses in all the southern states were
  segregated. Laws said that the seats in the front
  were for whites, those in the back for blacks.

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• Then, when all the seats filled up, the driver
  asked Parks to give her seat to a white man (that
  was customary in Jim Crow Alabama). Rosa Parks
  wouldnt budge.

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• She knew she might get in trouble, she might even
  go to jail, but suddenly she found herself filled
  with determination. She stayed in her seat.

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• The bus driver called the police. Rosa Parks was
  soon arrested and on her way to jail. Parks was
  tired of riding on segregated buses. She was
  tired of being pushed around. She was even ready
  to go to jail.

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• When the ministers and black citizens of
  Montgomery heard of her arrest, they were
  stunned. Of all people, mild-manner, Mrs. Parks
  was in jail?

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• The NAACP raised bond money to get her out of
  jail. But she would have to go on trial for
  breaking the segregation law.

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• The NAACP asked Parks if her case could be used
  to fight segregation. They knew that might put
  her life in danger.

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• Blacks who stood up for their rights were
  sometimes lynched. But Mrs. Parks pursued the
  issue anyways.

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• The black community began organizing a boycott of
  the buses. Montgomerys blacks would stay off the
  buses for one whole day as a protest.

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• Leaflets were printed, telling the black
  community to keep off the buses the next Monday,
  the day of Rosa Parks trial.

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• Montgomerys leading Negro ministers agreed to
  support the one-day boycott. In their sermons on
  Sunday they urged everyone to stay off the buses
  on Monday.

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• Those who rode buses were mostly the poorer
  citizens. They were people who needed to get to
  work. Some were elderly.

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• Some could find rides, but many would have to
  walk miles. And they all feared white violence.
  It was customary to intimidate blacks who tried
  to stand up for their rights.

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• It was fear that made segregation work.

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• But something unexpected happened in Montgomery.
  Like Rosa Parks, most black people no longer
  seemed afraid. They had had enough.

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• They stayed off the buses Monday. And also on
  Tuesday. And then all week. And all month. And on
  and on, in rain and cold and sleet and through
  the heat of summer.

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• In an effort to intimidate the black community,
  black homes and churches were bombed and burned.

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• The black community had several strong leaders,
  but one was outstanding. That leader was a
  26-year old minister named Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• When King was asked to lead the boycott, he
  accepted. He decided to incorporate Gandhis
  methods of nonviolent protest.

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• We are not here advocating violence. The only
  weapon that we haveis the weapon of
  protestand the great glory of American
  democracy is the right to protest for right.
  Martin Luther King

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• Soon people around the nation, and in other
  nations as well, were watching the people of
  Montgomery marching for civil rights.

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• TV watchers saw and heard the haters, screamers
  and rock throwers.

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• Thirteen months after Rosa Parks arrest, the
  Supreme Court ruled that segregation on Alabama
  buses was unconstitutional. The boycott was over.

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• Martin Luther King and other prominent black
  leaders rode the first integrated bus, and they
  all sat up front together.

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• The people of Montgomery not only changed their
  world, they changed their times.

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