Montgomery Bus Boycott (5 dic 1955 anni – 20 dic 1956 anni)

Descrizione:

The Montgomery bus boycott was sparked by Rosa Park's arrest after not giving her seat to a white woman. The boycott protested not only her arrest but also the segregated seating of the busses. Parks immediately joined up with both a women's activism group and the local NAACP sector to sue montgomery to be courteous and higher black drivers but as the bus system resisted they changed their approach and sued for the complete invalidation of the segregation rules. The boycott was the first of many highly publicised civil rights events. The boycott lasted for 13 months or 381 days. People refused to ride the bus and instead walked, rode their bikes if they had them, or carpooled. The lack of black patronage damage the bus system and eventually the federal court ruled that the segregation rules violated the 14th amendment.