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Montgomery Bus Boycott

Montgomery Bus Boycott . By Terell Bruce. Montgomery Bus Boycott Started . The Montgomery Bus Boycott started on December 1 1955. It started when Rosa Parks was arrested for not moving from the seat that she was seating in.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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  1. Montgomery Bus Boycott By Terell Bruce

  2. Montgomery Bus Boycott Started • The Montgomery Bus Boycott started on December 1 1955. • It started when Rosa Parks was arrested for not moving from the seat that she was seating in. • Perhaps the movement started on the day in 1949 when a black professor Jo Ann Robinson. absentmindedly sat at the front of a nearly empty bus, then ran off in tears when the bus driver screamed at her for doing so.

  3. Montgomery Bus Boycott Supporter • A pastor name Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his favorite speech “ I Have A Dream”. • As Martin Luther King’s closest friend and advisor, Ralph Abernathy became a central figure in the civil rights struggle during the Montgomery bus boycott

  4. End of Montgomery Bus Boycott • On June 5,1956 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation unconstitutional. • All of the blacks went back to ride the Buses again on June 5, 1956.

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