Black people in Montgomery, Alabama were only allowed to sit in the back seats of the bus and they had to give up their seat if white people wanted them.
Rosa Parks was an Activist for the NAACP .
She decided to make a stand against Montgomery's racially segregated bus service.
The NAACP backed her on this.
She refused to give her seat up to a white man.
She was promptly arrested and convicted of breaking the bus laws.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott- Consequences
The Civil rights movement helped the black people of Montgomery to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).
They decided to boycott the buses and the community organised a car pool.
It became illegal and the NAACP took a lot of damage.
The KKK shot racially integrated buses as segregation was banned on public transport.
The churches, houses and black people were continually targeted.
King was arrested and his house was fire-bombed.
For thirteen months the 17,000 black people in Montgomery walked to work or obtained lifts from the small car-owning black population of the city.
Eventually, the loss of revenue and a decision by the Supreme Court on 13th November, 1956, forced the Montgomery Bus Company to accept integration. The following month the buses in Montgomery were desegregated.
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