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Montgomery bus boycott



The Montgomery bus boycott started December 5, 1955 – December 20, 1956. NAACP Means national Association for the advancement of colored people in NAACP was the most important part of the Montgomery bus boycott, was one of the earliest and most influential civil rights influential civil rights issues of the day. Nine months before Rosa Parks arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat, 15 years old Claudette colvin was arrested for the same thing. December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was sitting in the "colored section" The bus driver seen a white person standing and ask Rosa Park to get out of her seat, she refused. She was arrested and fined $10 +4 dollars for in court fees.next it was a group called WPC . The women's political counsel is what it stands for. It's a group of women working for civil rights ( they made flyers). December 4 on a Sunday approximately 40,000 African-American bus riders stop writing the buses. Montgomery improvement Association voted for Martin Luther King Jr., the 26-year-old pastor for the Avenue Baptist Church. Other black people created carpools and taxi drivers charge is only $10. On June 5, 1956 a Montgomery federal court ruled that him you are requiring racially segregated seating on buses violated the 14th amendment. American Civil War guarantees all citizens, regardless of race, equal rights and equal protection. March on Washington in August MLK delivered his speech (I have a dream). After the March hundred reporters visited Montgomery going to boycott. In 1999 the US Congress award rose its highest honor, the congressional gold-medal.