Rosa Parks is arrested:
· As in many southern states, Alabama’s Jim Crow laws required that blacks give up their seats on buses to whites.
· In December of 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dr. King:
· The NAACP, with the help of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., organized a bus boycott in Montgomery.
· Without black riders, white owned bus companies stood to lose a lot of money.
· King was arrested, his house was bombed, yet the boycott continued.
· King insisted that his followers follow civil disobedience, or nonviolent protests against unjust laws.
A hard-won battle:
· In 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional.
· Therefore, the Montgomery bus company agreed to integrate their buses and hire black bus drivers.
