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Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Boarding the bus.

    Boarding the bus.
    Rosa Parks got onto a city bus and sat with three other blacks in the fifth row, the blacks could take up.A few stops later the rows were filled with whites with one white man still standing. According to the laws blacks and whites could not sit in the same row, so the bus driver asked all four blacks to move. The three blacks that Rosa sat with had moved, but Rosa Parks refused. She was arrested.
  • Fourth day of Boycott

    Fourth day of Boycott
    King and other MIA officials met with officials and lawyers from the bus company, also with the city comissioners, to present a moderate desegregation plan similar to the one already implemented into Baton Rouge and other Southern cities, including Mobile, Alabama.
  • City Comission

    City Comission
    City Comissionmet with three non- MIAblack ministers and proposed a "comprimise," which was basically the system already in effect. The ministers accepted, and the comission leaked (false) reports to a newspaper that the boycott was over.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr

    Martin Luther King, Jr
    King recieved a treatening phone call
  • Martin Luther King, Jr

    Martin Luther King, Jr
    Luther's home was bombed.
  • U.S supreme Court

    U.S supreme Court
    The U.S supreme Court upheld the federal court's ruling, declaring segregation on buses unconstitutional.The Montgomery Bus Boycott was officially over.
  • Blacks returned to buses

    Blacks returned to buses
    Blacks returned to the buses over a year after the boycott had began.
  • MIA

    Joined other ministers from around the south in Alanta, Georgia. They founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conferance (SCLC) and elected Martin Luther King, Jr., as president. SCLC would continue to work in various areas of the South for many years, continuing the nonviolent fight for civil rights started Birmingham.
  • MIA

    MIA
    Joined other ministers from around the south in Alanta, Georgia. They founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conferance (SCLC) and elected Martin Luther King, Jr., as president. SCLC would continue to work in various areas of the South for many years, continuing the nonviolent fight for civil rights started Birmingham.
  • Law

    Law
    Blacks were indicted under an old law prohibiting boycotts.