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Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Unlawful Arrest Of Rosa Parks

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The cartoon above was created by Laura Gray in 1956, around the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It appeared in the cartoon column portion of The Militant magazine on February 13th, 1956. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for 13 months, and was fueled by the unlawful arrest of Rosa Parks on December 1st, of 1955. The boycott was not only fueled by Rosa Parks, years before her arrest, there had been other cases of unlawful Jim Crow practices on Montgomery City buses. There were many arrests that had been made, however none as powerful as that of Rosa Parks’. According to King, he said in his memoir that ‘‘Mrs. Parks was ideal for the role assigned to her by history,’’ and because ‘‘her character was impeccable and her dedication deep-rooted,’’
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