dec 20, 1956 - Montgomery Bus Boycott

Description:

-Was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
-WPC member
Jo Ann Robinson
-MIA members
Martin Luther King Jr.
E.D. Nixon
Rosa Parks
Fred Gray
-City Commission
W. A. Gayle, President of the Commission (mayor)
Frank Parks, Commissioner
Clyde Sellers, Police Commissioner
-National City Lines
Kenneth E. Totten, vice president
-Montgomery City Lines
J.H. Bagley, manager
Jack Crenshaw, attorney
James F. Blake, bus driver
-December 5, 1955 – December 20, 1956 (1 year and 15 days)
-(cause) Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person
-(effects) Supreme Court declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were unconstitutional.