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Bus #1 Boycott

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Bus boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott took place because a woman of color was arrested. A black woman named Joanne Robinson stepped on a bus and sat in a whites-only section causing her to be arrested leaving the bus in horror. Colored people figured out that if they don't ride in their buses they can make the bus business lose money. Colored people created the Montgomery Improvement Association also known as the MIA. A young Martin Luther King JR led this organization. The boycott took place on December 5, 1955 when they hosted a mass meeting at church declaring that they will not ride busses. MLKs house was bombed and so were four other churches because of Montgomery citizens trying to stop the boycott. The supreme cour ruled that the segregated busses were declared unconstitutional. The boycott was sucsesfull and lasted 382 days long which is over a year long.

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This is Rosa Parks. Rosa was one of the colored wommen who were arrested for sitting in the whites only section on the bus. Rosa parks went down in history and a brave woman who inspired others.

Rosa Parks

Protests

Inside of bus

In this image, you can see what the protests looked like. Many signs say things all relating to equal rights. There are lots of people protesting, which shows how big of a deal it is and how badly they want equality.

This is what the buses looked like before they protested. As you can see in the picture, there are all of the white people in the front and all of the colored people in the back. This bus is very segregated, which the colored people did not feel was right.

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Brown vs. Board of education

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Brown v. Board of Education was a protest that was essentially trying to cancel the Jim Crow laws. In 1896, a group called the NAACP sued schools in the South for violating the separate but equal clause. In 1896, there was a Supreme Court decision that allowed segregation to be legal. This court case was called Plessy v. Ferguson. In Brown v. Board of Education, a man named Thurgood Marshall represented the NAACP, and John W. Davis represented the states. This court case took place in 1953. Thurgood Marshall argued that segregated schools could never be equal. The simple act of separating people suggested that one group is better than the other. John W. Davis argued that each state should be allowed to decide for itself whether to segregate its schools. The Constitution did not prevent segregation between blacks and whites. The NAACP won the case 9-0, which reversed Plessy v. Ferguson. The court did not allow time for this to come into action. Ten years later, less than 10% of schools were desegregated. This case only desegregated schools, not playgrounds, movie theaters, etc.

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Thurgood Marshall

This is the NAACP, the NAACP was created by a young Martin Luther King JR. The NAACP is a human rights group created in 1909 that wanted justice for African Americans. They were the group that fought against the Jim Crow laws and wanted desegregation in schools.

This is Thurgood Marshall. He was the representative for the NAACP. He was fighting for schools to be desegregated. He fought for the Jim Crow laws to be canceled.

This is a picture of people with signs saying things about race mixing. They were protesting against the Jim Crow laws. They were also protesting for non-segregated schools.

Protest

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Freedom Riders

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The Freedom Riders took place in 1961. The riders started in Washington D.C. and their intended final destination is New Orleans, Louisiana. They were on a long bus trip, testing whether they could sit in the whites-only section. Once they traveled into the Carolinas they were met with violence. In Anniston, AL, the freedom riders were physically attacked and the bus was burned. The freedom ride ended before they got to New Orleans. Even tho they did not make it to where they wanted to, the news and pictures got America's attention. From November 1, 1961, all interstate busses had to have a sign saying, "Seating aboard this vehicle is without regard to race, color, creed, or national origin, by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission".

This is the certificate that had to be displayed on all of the buses showing that people could sit wherever they wanted to no matter their race, color, creed, or national origin. This was put in place because of the successful protest from the freedom riders

The certificate that had to be displayed on busses

This was the freedom riders path. As you can see in the picture, the Freedom Riders wanted to go from Washington D.C. to New Orleans, Louisiana. The freedom riders sadly did not make it to New Orleans because their bus was tragically burnt down

Freedom riders path

The bus in the picture was the bus that the freedom riders were riding on. The freedom rider's goal was to go from Washington D.C. to New Orleans, Louisiana. The trip was going strong hunting they came across Anniston, AL where their trip ended and bus was burned down.

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