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The Montgomery Bus Boycotts were protests opposing Racial Segregation in the city bus systems. These Protests began in 1955, and were led and encouraged by a lot of historical Civil Right Activists from this time period. The boycotting of the Public Transportation System, was hitting the city - Montgomery - hard, since so meny of the poeple who relied on Public Transportaition were now refusing to use it; the city's income was dwindleing.
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
The Montgomery Bus Boycotts led to a Supreme Court decision that stated that Alabama laws deemed segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
''I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. '' ~Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a 42 year old black women, living in Montgomery, Alabama. On Dec 1st, 1955, she resused to give up her bus seat to a white male. and was arrested because of her actoins. This, was not the first incident of its kind, however, it was Park's actions that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
E. D. Nixon, was the president of the NAACP, and a member of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Nixon wanted to use Rosa Park's arrest as a 'test case' so that Af. Am's could challenge the segregation on the city buses.
The Montgomery Bus Boycotts are a very important part of civil rights history. They were one of the biggest ways that blacks really stood up to show that they had rights too.
