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People protesting racial mixing.

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What is the Bus Boycott?1955 Social and

Political Protest to ban segregation of public transportation facilities.

Figures associated with this movement are Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just By Walking People Made a positive historic change.

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Rosa Parks NAACP secretary and

seamstress.

Took classes on civil rights issues.

Refusal to give up her bus seat for a white man led to her arrest and the beginning of the boycott.

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Rosa Parks Being Arrested for disobeying a white man.

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Martin Luther King Jr.Pastor of a Baptist

church.

Meetings at the church were to plan a protest against segregation.

December 5th 1955, people (blacks and some whites) refused to ride city busses.

Martin Luther King Jr. creates equality by sharing his beliefs.

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Montgomery ImprovementAssociation

Formed during the bus boycott, by black ministers and leaders.

Martin Luther King was declared the president of the association.

Goals were to improve race relations.

Martin Luther King leading a group of African American

protesters.

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Society’s Response to the Boycott

Police officers would arrest people waiting for rides.

Carpoolers were constantly ticketed.

Drivers and passengers were arrested.

Carpooling during the Boycott

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Results of the Boycott Segregation was ruled

unconstitutional by the Supreme court.

381 days since the beginning, the Montgomery bus boycott ended.

The most successful uprising in history. The end of the Boycott when

segregation was illegal.

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