Montgomery+Bus+Boycott

**The Montgomery Bus Boycott [|(1)]**

** The Montgomery Bus Boycott started in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955. This all started on Thursday, December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat in the 5th row, which was the 1st row that blacks could occupy. A few stops later, the 4 front rows were all full and one white man was left standing. The bus driver asked for all 4 black people to move because whites and blacks couldn’t sit in the same row. Three of them moved, but Rosa Parks refused and was arrested. This started the Montgomery Bus Boycott where blacks decided that they would boycott city buses until they were allowed to sit anywhere they wanted on the buses instead of having to move to the back when people got on. That night, Jo Ann Robinson planned the boycott, making posters that urged blacks to not ride the buses. The MIA decided to let people vote for whether or not they wanted the boycott to continue. The decision was unanimous. The boycott would continue. The MIA made a private taxi plan where blacks who owned cars picked up or dropped off blacks who needed rides at designated points. ** ** Whites tried to end the boycott in every way possible. One way they tried to do this was to divide the black community. When the effort to end the boycott failed, the whites turned to violence as a method to end it. They started bombing homes, King’s home was bombed on January 30 and Nixon’s home was bombed on February 1. Blacks still continued to stay off of the buses. Blacks started to end the boycott by bringing it to court. On November 13, 1956, the US Supreme Court declared segregation on buses unconstitutional. This put an official end to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. ** ** Although the boycott was officially over, blacks continued to stay off the buses and didn’t continue to ride the buses again until December 21, 1956. **