The Montgomery Bus Boycott by Diya https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3 By Diya P en-us 2020-08-27 22:34:39 UTC 2026-03-24 22:08:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Context pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703959321 In 1955, African Americans were still required by a Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinance to sit in the back half of city buses and to yield their seats to white riders if the front half of the bus, reserved for whites, was full.]]> 2020-08-27 22:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703959321 December 1, 1955 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703962434 Rosa Parks was commuting home on Montgomery’s Cleveland Avenue bus from her job at a local department store. She was seated in the front row of the “coloured section.” When the white seats filled, the driver, J. Fred Blake, asked Parks and three others to vacate their seats. The other black riders complied, but Parks refused. She was arrested for not complying to segregation laws on buses and fined $10 plus a $4 court fees. Her defiance sparked a reaction from the African American community of Montgomery. ]]> 2020-08-27 22:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703962434 Rosa Parks pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703965379 Rosa Parks was an African American seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama. She was a role model of courage in the face of racial injustice. Through her commitment to her race and to the cause of civil rights and racial injustice, was prepared to give up everything to fight for what was right, and that was justice for the African American community.]]> 2020-08-27 22:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703965379 December 5, 1955 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703979602 Rosa Parks is set to appear in court for the arrest. She is found guilty and gets a prison sentence for which E.D. Nixon, a prominent black leader in the Civil Rights Movement, helps bail her out. 

This Day also marks the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 

Instead of the expected 60% turnout, an estimated 90%-100% of the black community in Montgomery choose to participate in the boycott. Approximately 40,000 black bus riders—the majority of the city’s bus riders—boycotted the system the next day, December 5. 

That afternoon, black leaders met to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The group elected Martin Luther King Jr, the 26-year-old-pastor of Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church as its president, and decided to continue the boycott until the city met its demands.

]]> 2020-08-27 22:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703979602 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703980955 2020-08-27 22:56:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703980955 Martin Luther King Jr pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703986197 Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate degree in theology and in 1955 and helped organize the first major protest of the African American civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott. Influenced by Gandhi, he advocated civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to segregation in the South. The peaceful protests he led throughout the American South were often met with violence, but King and his followers persisted, and the movement gained momentum.
 
King appealed to Christian and American ideals and won growing support from the federal government and Northern whites. In 1963, Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph led the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; the event’s grand finale was King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Two hundred and fifty thousand people gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial to hear the stirring speech. 
 
In 1964, the civil rights movement achieved two of its greatest successes: the ratification of the 24th Amendment, which abolished the poll tax, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public facilities. Later that year, King became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In the late 1960s, King openly criticised U.S. involvement in Vietnam and turned his efforts to winning economic rights for poor Americans. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.


]]> 2020-08-27 23:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703986197 December 4, 1955 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703987318 On this day, black ministers announce the boycott in church and the Montgomery Advertiser, a general-interest newspaper, published a front-page article on the planned action.]]> 2020-08-27 23:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703987318 March 1954 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703996590 The Women's Political Council (WPC) meets with Montgomery mayor W. A. Gayle to outline their recommended changes for the Montgomery bus system.]]> 2020-08-27 23:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703996590 March 2, 1955 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703997034 Claudette Colvin arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman.]]> 2020-08-27 23:12:48 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703997034 March 1955 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703997596 Black leaders in Montgomery, including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, meet with city officials to discuss bus seating requirements.]]> 2020-08-27 23:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703997596 December 2, 1955 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703998646 The Women's Political Council calls for a one-day boycott of all buses.]]> 2020-08-27 23:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/703998646 December 13, 1955 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704002456 The MIA implements a carpool system to support citizens taking part in the boycott.]]> 2020-08-27 23:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704002456 January 30, 1956 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704003796 Dr. King's home is bombed. In response, Dr. King calls for peaceful protest rather than violent action.]]> 2020-08-27 23:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704003796 March 19, 1956 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704004414 Dr. King is indicted as a leader of the boycott and ordered to pay $500 or serve 386 days in jail.]]> 2020-08-27 23:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704004414 December 20, 1956 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704005043 The Supreme Court's orders of injunction against segregation on city buses are delivered to the Montgomery City Hall.
King leads black people on the buses where they could sit wherever they wanted. This landmark constitutional victory gave reason, purpose and confidence to the desegregation movement.]]> 2020-08-27 23:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704005043 December 21, 1956 pateldiya2044 https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704005780 Montgomery's buses are officially desegregated. The MIA ends the boycott.]]> 2020-08-27 23:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pateldiya2044/igylyzulxjmalcf3/wish/704005780