Montgomery+Bus+Boycott

=//**Montgomery Bus Boycott**//= The Montgomery Bus Boycott started on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott ended up lasting 381 days. This was when African Americans refused to ride the busses, because of the segregation that occured on the busses. They started the boycott to rebel, and to stop segregation on the busses.This happened because the African Americans wanted to sit where ever they wanted. They were not allowed to do that, because they were forced to sit in the back of the busses, and had to give up their seats to white people if there were no more seats left open on the bus. If there was a white person standing on the bus because there were no open seats left, then the African Americans had to get up and let them sit. They would then have to go and stand in the back of the bus because there were no more seats open. amberhagler.edu.glogster.com

This image is showing how the African Americans had reserved seats in the back of the bus.They could not chose where they wanted to sit. They also had to give up their seats to the white people if their were no open seats available, and then they were forced to move to the back. montgomeryboycott.com This is an image of Claudette Colvin. She was a sixteen year old African American student who was riding the bus back home to her house. When she first got on the bus there were no white people inside. Once white people got onto the bus the African Americans were supposed to move. She decided that she was not going to move. The bus driver ordered her to the back of the bus, but she ignored him. The bus driver then said he wouldn't move the bus untill she moved to the back. She still ignored him, so the bus driver got out of the bus and found a police officer and told him what was happening The police officer brought her to jail, because she refused to give up her seat. Even though she refused to give up her seat before Rosa Parks did, Rosa Parks was the one who got credit for it. msnbc.msn.com The event that happened to start the bus boycott was when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. Just because she refused to give up her seat she was arrested. Once the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People heard about Rosa Park's arrest, he decided to hold a one day bus boycott. During this day the African Americans who usually rode the busses found other ways for transportation. Lots of people decided to walk instead of taking the busses. Another way of transportation was carpooling, which was set up by the Montgomery Improvement Association. Most of the people who rode the busses supported the boycott, so they decided to keep it going. They continued this boycott untill segragation on busses ended.

After 381 days had passed the boycotters decided to go to the U.S Supreme Court. They wanted to prove that it was not right to have segregation on busses, and they wanted it to become banned. After that the Supreme Court eventually decided that segregation on busses was unconstitutional, and it could no longer happen. This effects us today becasue African Americans are now treated equally on busses. Segragation can no longer happen and they can sit wherever they want on busses.