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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The civil rights movement was a movement that fought for civil rights and against segregation for people of color because people of color were being treated unfairly in schools, work, jobs and more so people were protesting against segregation and civil rights.

My topic is related to the civil rights movement because the Montgomery bus boycott started when a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man. People of color started protesting because of the unfair treatment. It is related because both of them are fighting for civil rights.

I chose this topic because I was wondering how a protest was successful and how people came together to change something. I think the moral of the story is that if people come together they can change things that seem wrong. It will impact others because now people know how strong their voices are and if they come together, people can achieve a lot of things.

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The Montgomery bus boycott was a boycott in Alabama because of the segregated seats on the buses. It all started when a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, and that is how the boycott began.

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In 1955, a women named Rosa Parks was arrested because she would not give up her seat on the bus to a white man. This is how the Montgomery bus boycott began.

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Rosa Parks was the second person to not give up her seat to a white man.

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90 precent of people of color stayed off the buses.

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From December 5th, 1955 to December 20th, 1956 people of color boycotted the buses in Montgomery, Alabama.

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The bus boycott lasted for 381 days, which is more than a year.

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In 1955, the NAACP decided to fight against segregation on the buses.

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A lot of people did not like the protest/boycott, so they resorted to violence.

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Despite the violence, people of color kept going with the protest/boycott because they wanted segregation on the buses to end.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the bus boycott.

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A lot of people of color were involved in the protest because they believed that the bus segregation should stop.

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Civil rights activists joined the boycott and the followers joined too.

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Rosa Parks said “ I did not give up my seat because I was tired of injustice”

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What happened and why people of color were boycotting the buses was because of unfair treatment.

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People that wanted the boycott to end found an old law that states boycotts are against the law. They encouraged local law makers to arrest the people in the boycott, but the people of color kept going on.

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Almost immediately Rosa Parks was fired from her job.

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Parks husband quit his job as a barber because he could not talk about Rosa Parks.

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The city of Montgomery was low on money because of the boycott. Without people riding the buses there was no money.

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The boycott made the national headlines and reporters were eager to interview Parks about the boycott.

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Colvin’s actions inspired Parks to protest that day.

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Parks was arrested again because of her part in the bus boycott including 88 others.

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On June 5th, 1956, a court declared segregation on buses was not right.

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The Ku Klux Klan bombed King and Nixons house because they wanted to restore white supremacy.

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Parks also faced harassment. She got a lot of threatening calls so she moved to Detroit to live with her brother and cousins.

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In Detroit, Parks did not stop fighting for cvil rights.

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Parks became a court assistant to John Corners who was an African American politician.

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