Montgomery+Bus+Boycott

The Montgomery bus boycott was encouraged by the arrest of Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was a black woman who sat in the front row of the bus and refused to give her seat up to a white man. This was a major issue because blacks weren't even allowed to sit in the front rows and if they had, they would automatically have to give up their seat to a white person. Police then arrested Rosa Parks and she was fined $10. Her arrest then influenced blacks to start a boycott, or protest, against public transportation. Blacks stopped riding the buses, which meant the buses would lose money. The leader of the movement was Martin Luther King Jr. He, like Gandhi, believed in nonviolence. Things started getting intense and blacks were being arrested and thrown into jail. King was also thrown in jail but that didn't stop the movement. The movement then became known nationwide and after a while the federal court had finally declared that Alabama's segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional. The Supreme Court then upheld the districts ruling, which led to the desegregation of the buses. Blacks were then allowed to sit wherever they wanted on the buses, which showed that the boycott helped gain some equality for Blacks. The boycott became known as a U.S civil rights movement and Marin Luther King Jr. became one of the prime leaders of the cause.