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Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress and NAACP secretary, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery. Grassroots Involved:
NAACP Montgomery Chapter that Parks was a part of. Local churches and local community leaders. -
Local leaders form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) in response to Rosa Parks arrest and organize the boycott. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is elected president of the MIA. Grassroots Involved:
MIA, Dexter Ave Baptist Church was the central location for organization of the boycott and where the local community would gather to protest. -
The boycott officially begins and African Americans stopped using segregated buses. They organized carpools and walked to work. Grassroots Involved:
MIA, the local African American community, local churches and African American carpool networks that would help people travel without using the segregated buses. -
The boycott would lead to the MIA and the NAACP working together and would file the law suit Browder v. Gayle. This would challenge if bus segregation was constitutional. Grassroots Involved:
NAACP, MIA and the local African American community. -
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle ends the boycott. Montgomery’s buses are desegregated. The boycott’s success is a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Grassroots Involved:
MIA and local churches and the community have helped to get to this major milestone.
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