The Montgomery Bus Boycott

 By: Will, David, and Chris

 

                             Our opinion

               The Confederat battle flag is not a sighn of heritage. If you call inslaving people of other color and savagly fighting a war without a moment to be proud of then there is your heritage. We don't want a sighn on our flag from our nation's worst part of history. Our flag also has peaches which represents our agriculture. The Confederate Battle flag which was a flag flown by a side that wanted to kill us. This flag is a racsist symbol too. That is a sighn of a group of people leaving our country to inslave others. If you are an imigrant in Americia and you knew American history you would think that we respect war. Our flag shows valor of our country and of the AMERICAN flag not the confederate flag. We also show the state seal and an American soldier. This is why we suport this flag. Not a Confederate flag representing savages, but representing a united Union of Georgia and the US.

                    This is what the symbols on our flag represent. It shows the soldier soluting the state seal and the american flag. We also suport it becouse it has the american flag which is who we are. Also we suport Georgia state fruit which shows we have loyalty to Georgia in a good way.

http://www.mccsc.edu

 A protest during the

Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Led by Martin Luther

King Jr.

 

                       When was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

            The Montgomery Bus Boycott started officially on December 5th, 1955.  Many people think of it as starting on December 1st, because that was the day that Rosa Parks was arrested.  The boycott lasted a long 381 days and finally ended on December 20th, 1956.  What many people don't realize is that this was not the official ending.  That had come on November 13th, 1956. 

(see below for timeline of events) 

 

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This is a Montgomery bus after the boycott had

ended in segregation for public busses.

 

 

 

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

   The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a boycott in Montomery, Alabama where all African American people and some white riders stopped riding the segregated buses. This was hard to do because many of the blacks did not have enough money to buy their own cars so they had no way to get to work.  To make up for this the Women's Political Council (WPC) and other groups like it made carpools available to people that were perticapating in the boycott.  These steps taken gave the boycott the opportunity to be succesful. 

     To end the boycott, the African American leaders had 3 major terms that were guidelines for the protest.

"1. Blacks would not ride the buses until polite treatment by bus drivers were guranteed to them.

2. Segregation must be abolished on buses, and a first come first policy adapted and

3. The imployment of black bus drivers."- qoutes from http://home.att.net/~reniqua/what.html

 

 

        Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott occur?

   The Montgomery Bus Boycott occured because the African Americans were tired of being treated unfairly and they knew that segregation on buses was wrong. An example of their unfair treatment is that when an African American wanted to ride a bus they would have to enter at the front of the bus with their token, give it to the driver, then exit from the same door.  Then they would have to walk to the backdoor of the bus to enter again so they wouldn't disturb the white people in their seats.  In some cases, when walking to the back door the bus driver would speed away with the token and the passenger would be left on the curb.   

 

 

 

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A march in the city

streets of Montgomery

Alabama during the

bus bocott.

 

         What was done in attempt to discontinue the boycott?

   The Montgomery Bus Boycot ran into many inconvieneces during its time that were caused by white people living there.  One of them was that the white owners of the insurance companies wouldn't give car insurance to anyone that was going to use their car to carpool for the Bus  Boycott.  Also, Blacks were tried to be stopped by violence or getting arrested.

 

 

  Who Participated in the Boycott?

    In this Boycott, the participants included most Blacks from

Montgomey and few white protesters. Some more specific names are

Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her Bus seat getting arrested

This was perhaps the key inspiration for the entire Montgomery

bus boycott. Coretta used her inspiration from her husband to

encourage many to partipate. Rev. Abernathy used his money to

buy cars for the protesters, he also organized carpools and protests.

Also, many industries, buisnesses, and social groups helped funding. The C.O.R.E funded

the purchases of vehicles. The Men of Montgomery organized meetings,

fund raisers, and marches. They truly contributed to an important cause.

 

 

                                  

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Rosa Parks, a black

seamstress that

refused to give up her

seat to a white man in

Montgomery Alabama.

 

 

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This is martin Luther King Persuading

people in his speeches.

 

 

Key Events:

December 1st, 1955- Rosa Parks arrested

December 5th, 1955- Official beginning of boycott

June 24th, 1956- Segregation ruled illegal in federal court

November 13th, 1956- Official end of boycott

December 20th, 1956- Unofficial end of boycott

 

 

 

 

 

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When Rosa Parks is getting stampped/signed

in from when she got arrested.

 

 

 Where did the montgomery bus boycott occur? See our google map

     The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially was in Montgomery, Alabama.

It started on December 1, 1955. That was the day when the blacks

of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they would boycott the city

buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being

relegated to the back when a white person boarded.

 

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