Bus boycotts

By adunn15@rockets.rochester3a.net

  • A group of people partake in a "Journey of Reconciliation

    Igal Roodenko, George Houser, Bayard Rustin, James Peck, and Joseph Felmet, are some of the people that took this bus ride to test a 1946 case that supposedly declared bus segregation unconstitutional. This is the ride that inspired the Freedom Riders.

  • Bus boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana begins

    This is believed to be the very first bus boycott against segregation. The boycott only lasted eight days.
  • Bus boycott begins

    Bus boycott begins

    The famous buys boycott begins in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Bus Boycott goes public

    Bus Boycott goes public

    By this day, 90% of the blacks in Montogomery staid off the buses.

  • Buses boycott is desegregated

    After 13 months of boycotting the buses are finally desegregated and blacks begin to use them again.
  • Boynton v. Virginia court case ends

    Boynton v. Virginia court case ends

    In this case the Supreme court officially declared that bus segregation is illegal in all states. However, this wasn't put into action in the south.
  • First Freedom Ride leaves Washington D.C.

    First Freedom Ride leaves Washington D.C.

    Seven Freedom Riders leave Washington to try and test the supreme court case Boynton v. Virginia that declared bus segregation illegal.

  • Second group of Freedom Riders leave Nashville, Tennesee

  • Marshalls sent into Alabama to protect the riders

    Marshalls sent into Alabama to protect the riders

    Freedom Riders climb aboard another bus. Attorney General Robert Kennedey sent Marchalls into Alambama to help protect the Freedom riders.

  • Freedom Riders arrested

    The Freedom Riders are arrested and severely beaten in Jackson, Alabama.