https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz The events of the Montgomery Bus Boycott at the start of the Civil Rights Movement en-us 2021-01-19 16:29:29 UTC 2025-10-05 15:36:15 UTC hello@padlet.com d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1102196978 Jo Ann Robinson was sitting in the whites section on the bus and was told to get up. She was imagining her vacation,so she did not answer or acknowledge that she had to move until the bus driver started yelling and threatening her.]]> 2021-01-19 16:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1102196978 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1102219281 The Jim Crow laws were in place, meaning that the blacks had to go to different places than the whites, and the black only  places were usually lower-quality than the whites.]]> 2021-01-19 16:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1102219281 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1102243495 Jo Ann Robinson was elected president of the WPC (Women's Political Council).]]> 2021-01-19 16:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1102243495 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1102260510 The U.S Supreme Court declared that segregation in U.S public schools was unconstitutional.]]> 2021-01-19 17:02:42 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1102260510 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106464891 Edwina and Marshall Johnson were arrested for refusing to give up their seats for whites. They were fined and sent back to New Jersey.]]> 2021-01-20 16:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106464891 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106476669 Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white because she said it was her constitutional right to keep her seat.]]> 2021-01-20 16:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106476669 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106501787 Mary Louise Smith was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white.]]> 2021-01-20 16:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106501787 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106511764 Colvin was found guilty, and E.D Nixon abandoned the Colvin case ]]> 2021-01-20 16:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106511764 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106529919 Smith chose to plead guilty, and was fined 5 dollars. E.D Nixon felt that, again, it wasn't the case he wanted.]]> 2021-01-20 16:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106529919 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106544883 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat up to a white man.]]> 2021-01-20 16:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106544883 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106557349 E.D Nixon asked Rosa if she wanted to try to take her case to the U.S Supreme Court. Rosa agreed. Jo Ann Robinson and her staff issued letters on the mimeograph for a one day boycott.]]> 2021-01-20 16:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106557349 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106583279 The boycott starts, and all buses have no black passengers. The taxi company helps out by lowering the fare to 10 cents. The MIA was formed, and MLK was elected president of the it. He said that the blacks would not use violence. The crowd said that the boycott would continue.]]> 2021-01-20 16:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106583279 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106617214 The taxi company could not do their emergency discount, so MLK set up a carpool system. They ended up getting about 275 - 300 vehicles for it.]]> 2021-01-20 16:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1106617214 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110733359 Mayor Gayle and his city commissioners joined the White Citizens Council.]]> 2021-01-21 16:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110733359 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110747299 The bus company announced that it was on the verge of going bankrupt. The blacks carpooling were arrested for dumb and made-up causes.]]> 2021-01-21 16:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110747299 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110758687 MLK was arrested for going 30 MPH in a 25 MPH zone. (you can usually go 10 over without being arrested.)]]> 2021-01-21 16:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110758687 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110824081 So many MLK supporters gathered outside of the jail, that King was released without bail.]]> 2021-01-21 16:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110824081 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110847703 MLK got threat letters from the KKK (Klu Klux Klan). He got phone threats too. one man said, "Listen n*****, we've taken all we want from you. Before next week you'll be sorry you ever came to Montgomery."]]> 2021-01-21 16:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110847703 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110868319 The King house was bombed, and nobody was injured. A mob of blacks gathered outside with weapons, but MLK persuaded them to use nonviolence.]]> 2021-01-21 16:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110868319 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110902386 Someone poured acid over Jo Ann Robinson's car.]]> 2021-01-21 16:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1110902386 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114731660 The grand jury of 17 whites and 1 black to investigate racial unrest ruled 115 blacks for breaking a law for no boycotts "without just cause or legal excuse." ]]> 2021-01-22 16:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114731660 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114757939 All the boycotters were reporting themselves to the police.]]> 2021-01-22 16:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114757939 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114764780 Fred Gray filed papers to challenge bus segregation, and Rosa Parks was found guilty at her appeal ]]> 2021-01-22 16:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114764780 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114778299 MLK was found guilty in participating in a "illegal" boycott.]]> 2021-01-22 16:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114778299 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114785513  A three judge jury ruled 2-1 that bus segregation was illegal. The attorneys for Montgomery appealed to the Supreme Court.]]> 2021-01-22 16:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114785513 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114796099 The Robert Graetz house was bombed and no one was injured. Mayor Gayle passed it off as a publicity stunt.]]> 2021-01-22 16:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114796099 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114810601 The carpool was ruled illegal, but the U.S Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional.]]> 2021-01-22 16:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114810601 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114821241 The black people held a celebration for the end of their 381 day boycott success.]]> 2021-01-22 16:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114821241 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114828250 The ruling of the Supreme Court was finally delivered to Montgomery, and the buses were desegregated.]]> 2021-01-22 16:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114828250 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114836812 MLK, Abernathy, and the Graetz homes were bombed. No one was hurt.]]> 2021-01-22 16:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114836812 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114846338 A bomb was thrown into the church, and four teens were killed.]]> 2021-01-22 16:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114846338 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114851652 Segregation was banned in the U.S.A.]]> 2021-01-22 16:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114851652 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114855948 All people, regardless of race, gender, or color could vote without poll tests or taxes.]]> 2021-01-22 16:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114855948 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114863309 While supporting a sanitation strike in Memphis MLK was shot in the back of the head by James Earl Ray.]]> 2021-01-22 16:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114863309 d25tyler4600 https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114873600 Rosa Parks died to natural causes.]]> 2021-01-22 16:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/d25tyler4600/ms689bixffb5cszz/wish/1114873600