Sign in. All Football. It was one of the major events in America's civil rights movement. Most read in News. People relied on their own two feet to carry them to the market, to church, or their place of business. For the first time, black passengers board through the front of the bus and, like Rosa Parks, sit where they please. Martin Luther King Jr. Nixon in light hat , and other boycott leaders await the first desegregated bus, December During the bus boycott, most African Americans walked, arranged carpools, or found other means of transportation.
Church members celebrate the release of the arrested boycott leaders, February 1. Nixon, a union leader and former president of the Alabama NAACP, organizes a political forum through the Progressive Democratic Association to question white candidates for the Montgomery city commission about their positions on bus seating policies, inadequate local black representation, and other issues concerning blacks in the upcoming election.
March 2: year Claudette Colvin is arrested in Montgomery for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman. Mid-March: Black leaders, including E. Robinson mentions the possibility of a boycott after talks go badly. Supreme Court issues an order to implement desegregation according to Brown v. October year Mary Louise Smith is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman.
Late Oct. December 1: Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white passenger on the Cleveland Avenue Bus when told to by the bus driver.
She is arrested and contacts E. Nixon who posts her bond. Nixon, Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Rev. Parks and Haskins, Rosa Parks , Robinson, Montgomery Bus Boycott , Stanley Rowland, Jr. This entry is part of the following collection Montgomery Bus Boycott. Mary Louise Smith arrested in Montgomery. Rosa Parks arrested in Montgomery and released on bail.
Montgomery leaders organize boycott. MIA forms; elects King president. King speaks at Holt Street Baptist Church. Jemison; MIA approves car pool. Nixon's yard bombed. Montgomery grand jury indicts bus boycott leaders. Bayard Rustin visits Montgomery. Glenn Smiley interviews King in Montgomery. In Friendship holds founding conference in New York.
King found guilty of leading illegal boycott; announces boycott will continue. Bus desegregation mandate arrives; MIA ends boycott. Montgomery buses resume service on integrated basis; King, Ralph Abernathy, E.
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