USA at Home - Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-56 (PART 2)

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  • Created on: 16-12-19 22:20

Summer of '56

- As the boycott moved into the summer, the press followed it more closely whcih raised the issue of the deep racial hate in the south.

- The MIA took on the issue of segregation on transport to a federal distict court which accepted that segregation was unconstitutional. However, Montgomery officials appealed so it went tp the Supreme Court.

- On 13th November 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the federal courts ruling. The boycott was

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