Equality of Transport

Montgomery bus boycott between 1955-6:

• 1st of December
• Rosa Parks (55 yrs old)
• Didn't move from her seat for a white man
• arrested & jailed
• NAACP organised a 1 day boycott
• Blacks made 75% of passengers
• Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) organised a 1 yr boycott
• MIA leader was Martin Luther King Jrstarted the civil right movement

In November 1956 the Supreme Court ordered that segregation on transport was unconstitutional.

Montgomery bus boycott as a turning point:

• Martin Luther King Jr was in the…