What is a Boycott?

A boycott is when you stop using or going to a certin place or thing. Like in the Montgumery Bus Boycott all of the blacks boycotted Montgumery bus company. they all stoped using the busses. Most African Americans rode the busses. So when they arranged the boycott, they all walked or carpooled. THe bus company lost about 70% of their riders and money. It lasted for 381 days. Many whites tryed to stop the boycott from succeedeing by taking away the insurance for the church buses for carpool so they can'r drive. They whites were giving the blacks a very hard time, but that didn't stop the whites or the blacks. They African Americans who were fortanite enough to have cars carpooled with each other, or they just walked. In other cases the blacks took taxis.In January the bus companies anounced they were on they verge of bankruptcy. The Montgomery Improvment Association had created the boycott, and to walk the people who participated met at the church.

The carpool scheduele ran from 5 am to 8 pm. The MIA arranged for 325 private vehicles to be used. The MIA got there money from donations from all over the country, thousands of dollars poured in for the transpertation efforts. Whites made apolicy having the police arrest any group of people waiting to be picked up and the drivers, if they were black. The MIA brought the problem to the state court against the City of Montgomery. On february 21, 1956 the court said the boycott was illegal.The MIA lost the case. 115 leaders were arrested. bAfter this other boycotts started around the south. The arrests came to a three judge court  on June 5. The court ruled by a two to one vote to strike down the segregation of transpertation. No one followed this until December 20 when US marshals served the courts orders.

Who started the Montgomery bus boycott?

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama. She was the first child. After her brother was born she moved pine level Alabama. when she finished The Pine Level school in the 5th grade she went to the industrial school for Girls a private school. She finished that and went to high school. She had to stop school in the eleventh grade to take care of her dying grandmother. She planned to return back to school but then her mother became ill. She finished her High school Diploma in 1934. Parks became a seamstress.

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What did Rosa Parks do?

On December 1, 1955 Rosa parks got on a bus. The bus started to fill up. A white man got on the bus and there were no seats. james P. Blake, the bus driver,said" Let me have those front seats." No one moved. Then Blake said "Y'all better make is lighton ourselves and let me have those seats." Then every African American in the first row of the black section rose and moved to stand at the back of the bus, except for Rosa Parks. Lots of people said she was tired from work, but that is not true. She was just tired of giving in and letting all of the whites boss her around. In her words" The only tired I was was tired of giving in." Then the bus driver said" Look women I told you I wanted the seat. Are you going to get up." Parks then said" No I'm not." Mr. Blake said "if you don't stand up I'm going yo call the police and have you arrested." Rosa said " You may do that." The police came and arrested parks. She said"Why do you all push us around." The police man said" I don't know, but the law is the law and you're under arrest." Rosa Parks in know called The Mother of the Civil Rights Acts.

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When did the boycott start?

On December 5, 1955 Martin Luther King Jr. lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He started the boycott to try to desegregate the busses. The Busses were split into sections between the the black and the white. If all of the white section was full a black would have to give up there bus seat for a white. Other people have not gettin up for a white before but rosa parks just started it because it just really irritated all of the blacks. She was arrested on the first of December but the whole boycott started on December sixth.

Who was in the boycott?

The boycott was lead by Marin Luther King Jr. Many African American men and women, including children and teens participated in the boycott. After Rosa Parks got out of jail she participated. Thousands of people decided to use carpool and walk. Some decided to take taxis, but most walked and carpooled.

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Why did the boycott start?

Martin Luther king wanted to desegregate the buses. the buses were split into sections between the black and the white. No one liked being seperated. They wanted to change things so when they had the opportunity they would. Every black at one time got tired of the harrassment and wanted to stop it. They wanted to see the day when they didn't have to sit in the back of they bus just because of thier race. They wanted to bee free from segregation everywhere but the busses was a start. Many other people had done the same thing as Rosa, but many people missed thier oppertunity to do some thing about it.

The Georgia flag in 1956-2001 was a good flag because it showed that we were in the Confederacy. It is also a bad flag because it is affencive to some people. That flag is partly hertage because it shows that we are in the south but it is also racist to abolitionist because it has the confederate symbol on it. The Georgia flag changed in 1956 because they wanted to show more heritage in their flag so they added the confederate symbol because they are part of hte Confederacy. Our Flag has 7 stars that represent the first 7 startes the succeded from the union. There is a peach tree to show that it is Georgia because Georgias state fruit is the peach. We chose not to do the confederat flag because we knew that it was affencive to some people so we wanted to show a way that we are in the confederacy with out affending some people.

Sources

"civil rights movement" Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online School Edition. 7 Feb. @008 <http:school.eb.com/eb/articale.9082768

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