Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Cause
• Setting
• People Involved
• Event Sequence
• Effects

Ochse 6/13/06
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Cause

• Jim Crow Laws
• By the 1890s, as the gains of Reconstruction were
  stripped away, southern states began enacting Jim
  Crow laws that enforced separate facilities for
  blacks and whites
• The arrest of Rosa Parks for not giving up her
  seat

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Setting

• Where Montgomery Alabama
• When
• 1955 to1956
• Length
• 381 days

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People Involved

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• E. D. Nixon
• Rosa Parks

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Event Sequence

• Rosa Parks refused a bus driver's demand to give
  up her seat to a white man
• Boycott ninety percent of Montgomery's black
  citizens stayed off the buses
• Ruling U.S. Supreme Court's Browder vs. Gayle

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Effects

• The federal district court ruled bus segregation
  unconstitutional on 4 June 1956 (Browder v.
  Gayle).
• Nonviolent protest became the model for
  challenging segregation in the South

Ochse 6/13/06