How Did The Montgomery Bus Boycott Impact The Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery Bus Boycott

The start of the civil rights movement began on December 1, 1955 when Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a fellow white bus rider. This was a considered a big deal as the southern custom required that dark skinned people were to sit up the front of the bus and were required to give up their seats to fellow bus travelers. Rosa Parks was jailed; shortly after the black community bus boycotts began. The boycott lased for more than a year, inspiring African American citizens all over America.

Birmingham and the March on Washington

The civil right movement achieved its first major success in 1963 when the Birmingham and March on Washington occurred. The protest its self was peaceful, although the police involved were not, police were armed with clubs, fire hoses and police dogs. In the summer of 1963 the Birmingham protests has sparked many other civil rights protest including the March on Washington on August 28th, the March on Washington attracted around 200,000 people and was lead by Martin Luther King Jr. during the protest Martin Luther King addressed arguably one of the most famous speeches of all time the ‘I have a dream’ speech.

The Freedom Summer =, included of black Mississippians, and over 1000 out of state white volunteers. The participants in the Freedom Summer protest faced constant abuse and harassment from Mississippi’s white population, The Ku Klux Klan and police. There were a significant series of violent attacks, including arson, beatings, false arrest and the murder of three civil rights