Montgomery Bus Boycott: Rosa Parks

The Montgomery Bus Boycott sparked by the arrest of forty-three year old Rosa Parks, when she refused to give her seat up to a white passenger standing on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, which led to the 381-Day Montgomery bus boycott. Parks once stated “ Two policemen came on the bus, and one asked me if the driver had told me to stand. He wanted to know why I didn’t stand, and I told him I didn’t think I should have to stand up. I asked him, why did they push us around?’’ Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man standing, because she felt that she should take a stand for all African Americans for once or segregation will continue going on, because she was tired of being pushed around she made a choice of not getting up out her

Black communities, even organized a car-pooling so that every African-American can get to their destination, instead of having to ride the bus; which led to the ruling that declared segregation on the buses unconstitutional. The protest challenged the policy of bus segregation. On the day of the Rosa Parks trail almost the whole black community did not ride the busses at all. The protest hurt the bus systems, because more African Americans ride the buses to where they have to go than white people ride the buses therefore, most of the income for the buses was decreased when black riders stop riding the bus until they won equal rights just as whites. No African American Negro rode the segregated bus they carpool, walk, cancel plans, or used any type of way except ride the bus to get to their destination. Which African Americans were trying to lead to show how non-violent their protest could be by marching, and stop riding the bus. After the 381- Days of boycotting, the buses went to the Supreme Court to provide that it was not legal to separate blacks from whites on public transportation, so the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to separate people