The Events

• Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus


  December 1955
• Rosa Parks' arrest


  Triggered the start of the modern civil rights movement
• Underlying cause of the boycott

  • Montgomery segregated buses
  • Behaviours of white bus drivers
• Black economic power

  Used to force the whole bus company owners to reconsider their policies
• NAACP branch response to Rosa Parks' arrest

  1. Wanted a court case

  2. Branch secretary Rosa Parks was arrested
• Boycott organised by NAACP

  1. Assisted by the local black college & churches

  2. Black community launched a year long boycott
• Boycott aims

  • Fully integrated buses upon which anyone could sit anywhere
  • Employment of black drivers
• Boycott leader

  • 26 year old black baptist minister MLK Junior
• 50,000 of the black population participated in the boycott