Montgomery Bus Boycotts

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  • Rosa Parks Arrest

    Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on the bus.
  • Period: to

    Boycott time

  • black ministers and leaders met at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

    they met to plan and agreed to publicize the December 5th boycott.

  • The planned boycott happened with great results

    the boycott had 90% of the black community walking and not taking the bus

  • City Commission met with three non-MIA black ministers and proposed a "compromise,"

  • MLK's home was bombed

    the bomb was an attempt to break up to segregation movement

  • The US Supreme Court upheld the federal court's ruling.

    The US supreme court declared that bus segregation was unconstitutional.

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