Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Montgomery Civil Rights Movement

Ratified in 1868, the fourteenth amendment guaranteed due process and equal protection.

One of the segregation movements was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The problem in Montgomery, Alabama and in many places in the South was that local laws reserved the front rows for whites. Additionally, if all the rows in the front were full, the people in the colored section would have to give up an entire row for the white person. In 1955, Claudette Colvin was arrested for not giving up her seat in the bus. However, it was not until Rosa Parks arrest nine months after Colvin’s arrest that led to the boycott. Led by Martin Luther King Jr., the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956. During this time, African Americans boycotted the buses by

Another segregationist movement was the March on Washington. The problem in the United States, primarily the South, was that there was a segregated society. This meant the there were different sections for public places such as lunch counters, bus stations, schools, and colleges. Kennedy proposed a Civil Rights Bill that granted equal access to public places. On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington pushed for the passage of the bill. There were 250,000 people at the march and 75,000 of the people were white. Finally, on July 2, 1964, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender and allowed equal access to public places. This proves that the March on Washington was successful because the ultimate goal of the march was reached, when the Civil Rights Bill was passed and became the Civil Rights Act. One protest that pushed for voting rights was the March in Selma. The problem that the African Americans faced was the unfair voting barriers set in place. On March 7, 1965, 600 protesters marched from Selma to Montgomery. However,