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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955-1956 was a significant protest for the Civil Rights Movement. The boycott was organized in response to the mistreatment of Black passengers on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott lasted over a year and resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregating public buses was unconstitutional. Led by Martin Luther King Jr., the boycott demonstrated the power of nonviolent protest and economic action, setting an important precedent for the Civil Rights Movement.

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    Guiding Questions: How significant was the Montgomery Bus

    Boycottt (1955-1956) for the Civil Rights Movement?


    07 November 2023 14:34

    Topics:
    • Reason for protest
    • Mechanism of protest
    • White Response
    • Role of Martin Luther King
    • Results and significance

    The montgomery Bus Boy Boycott.


    A city in Alabama=Alabam is in the Deep South. -> southern states maintained legal slavery the longest. Slvaery
    made illegal (1865) but southern whites found other ways to control Blacks through laws and fear.
    The states where racism is at ist most violent.
    • Southe Carolina
    • Mississipi
    • Georgia
    • Alabama

    Jim Crow
    One of the racists laws & culture was called "Jim Crow".

    Why protest?
    How balcks were not given equal access to & mistreated city (public) buses
    1. Having to give up seat to whites
    2. Harrassed

    Goals + mechanism at the macro - level?


    1. Force the city of Montgomery to desegregate the buses & stop mistreatment
    2. Force the Supreme Court to rule that segregating public buses is unconstitutional
    3. Set a national president
    4. Force the federal government to enforce the constitution
    This is the methodology of the main stream civil rights movement

    Rosa Parks was arrested:


    • A once day boycott of the city buses was planned. -> economic protest
    ○ 90% of the Blacks refused to ride the buses -> this surprised organizers
    ▪ Level of support
    ▪ So many people would go out of their way
    ▪ People needed to go to work
    ▪ FEAR
    • After the first day the organisers decided to extend the protest until 3 demands were met:
    ○ People asked for courteus treatment
    ○ First come, first serve seeting
    ○ Black bus drivers on routes with major black amounts
    • The protest lasted over a year until:
    ○ Demands werde met
    ○ The supreme court had overruled

    Whites expected the protest to fail. Why?


    • Blacks would not sustain the protest -> they needed to go to work
    • Whites though Blacks were intellectually incapable of organizing a complex compaign
    • Fear: Blacks will be afraid

    Many Blacks expected the protest to fail. Why?


    • It will just make things worse
    • The system is was powerful & unlikely to change
    • They were afraid
    • They as a group had been taugh they were inferior

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