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Montgomery bus boycott
When, What, Where, Who, Why and what results
1955-6
Segregated buses
Montgomery, state capital of Alabama
NAACP, Rosa Parks, MLK
Most black people refused to use buses 85%
Slowly Montgomery buses desegregated it lost
Rosa Parks and what she did
-Represented African-Americans
-Icon for change
-Part of a community
-Emissary of the NAACP (a diplomatic representative)
-Investigated a rape in 1944
-demanded a new grand jury
-Born in 1913, Alabama
-A member of NAACP in 1944 (montgomery chapter)
-elected secretary of the chapter
-public responses of behalf of the chapter
-Spoke out against racial violence
-refused to move in 1953
-ended in 1956
-Moved to detroit
-Remained active for another 40 years
Consequences
NAACP take direct action (legal case)
E.D. Nixon and Martin Luther King lead a bus boycott
The MIA worked through black churches (N-V method)
Facts
Started car pooling for efficiency
Bus companies lost a lot of income
Imprisoned MLK for a year (only served 2 weeks)
Backfired and gave media attention
Lots of harassment afterwards