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Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama
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Rosa Parks join the NAACP and stands by her husband side.
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This is the famous day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat one afternoon on the bus. Later on that day she goes to jail due to this decisions
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The Women’s Political Council calls for bus boycott in Montgomery. they are fed up with the bus laws and demand for a new change.
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4 days after Rosa Parks got arrested people started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama. To make it offical and let the government know that change was needed.
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People nominated Martin Luther King Jr. to be the President for the bus boycott. He delivers his first civil rights speech at the church where he was elected.
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Montgomery bus lines stated that they will cut bus lines that go into most black neighborhoods starting the next day.
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At The 3rd meeting the people held they came to a decision that it would be better if people started to carpool to go places. This would make it easier on them so the people wouldnt have to walk everywhere.
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Mayor W. A. Gayle urges people in the black neighborhoods to ride the bus. He threatens that if they do not ride the bus that there would not be a bus company.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 13 month protest which ended at the Supreme Court which passed a law that said segregated buses are unconstitutional.
