Timeline of Montgomery bus boycott

By lad101

  • leaders meet

    Leaders within the black community such as MLK, rosa parks, and others meet with officials of the city to discuss bus seating.

  • Leaders meet

    Claudette Colvin a young black women gets arrested for not giving her seat to a white women

  • Rosa parks

    Rosa parks is arrested for not giving her seat up to a white women on her way home from work.

  • Boycott

    The WPC calls for a boycott of busses that would last one day on December 5th

  • Huge turnout

    The boycott is a success so the community decided to extend it.

  • Demands

    The MIA listed their demands to the city of Montgomery Alabama but they refused to comply

  • Unconstitutional

    Federal district court declares segregated bus seating unconstitutional

  • Offical

    Montgomery busses are officially desegregated