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The bombing of King's House
Dr. King's home was bombed. His wife and their baby daughter escaped without injury. When Dr. King arrived home he found an angry mob waiting. Dr. King told the crowd to go home. -
The Arrest of Rosa Parks
www.montgomeryboycott.com/photos/rParksArrest.jpgRosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat so that a white man could sit, She defied the segregation laws for blacks riding the bus. She was put in jail. This is an image of her getting fingerprinted. -
Black activists taking action.
Black Montgomery activists, including professor Jo Ann Robinson, attorney Fred Gray and labor leader E.D. Nixon, begin setting the stage for a bus boycott. -
Blacks refusing to ride the bus
www.blackpast.org/.../bus_boycott.jpgThis image is how blacks took a stand and by fighting to get their voice and message across to the city commissioners. -
The Boycott led by King
A one-day boycott of city buses results in about 90 percent of normal black ridership staying off buses. The Montgomery Improvement Association is formed by black leaders, who elect the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. president. Several thousand black citizens attend the first MIA mass meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, where they overwhelmingly support continuing the bus boycott. -
The meeting about Bus Boycott
The vice president of the parent company of the Montgomery bus system meets with city and local bus officials and with MIA leaders. The mayor forms a biracial committee, supposedly to negotiate a compromise. -
King arrested
http://www.history.com/photos/martin-luther-king-jr/photo4#King is charged with speeding and jailed by Montgomery police. -
The Courts Decision
The U.S. Supreme Court dismisses an appeal of a July 1955 federal appeals court ruling outlawing bus segregation in South Carolina. The decision is misconstrued by many as declaring all intrastate bus segregation unconstitutional. The Montgomery bus company decides to implement a policy of desegregation.
