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Claudette Colvin
fifteen-year-old girl from Montgomery, is arrested for refusing to allow a white passenger to sit in her seat. Colvin is charged with assault, disorderly conduct, and violating segregation laws. -
Meeting with the City
President Nixon, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks met with the city's council to discuss the segregation on public buses. After the incident of Claudette Colvin. -
Mary Lousie Smith
Mary Lousie Smith was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white man. -
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Public Transportation Boycott
Due to numerous events that either criminalized innocent victims or seriously caused harm to them due to the color of their skin ca a Boycott of Buses to arose until segregation on the buses was ended. -
Rosa Parks
Another African American was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white bus rider. She became essentially the straw to spark more conversations about ending segregation on the bus and moving to have laws sent to Supreme Court to do so. -
1 Day Boycott
Women's Political Counsel launched an one day boycott of buses. -
MIA
Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy launched Montogomery Improvement Association. -
MIA asking for change
The MIA sent a list of demands to Montgomery local officials demanding to end segregation. -
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Rebel against the Boycott
Numerous bomb threats and arrests were of the leaders and people involved with MIA. -
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The Boycott Success!
Bus segregation is ruled unconstitutional by the federal court. Supreme court struck down laws legalizing bus segregation. -
End of the Boycott
With the Supreme Court rulings reaching Montgomery city officials, it caused them to no longer be allowed to segregate public buses. Causing the Montogomery Boycott to end.