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In a paper consisting of eight pages (seven pages plus and outline of one page) the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956 is examined in an overview that includes the laws and bus codes regarding transit and riding buses who was involved before and after the boycott, movement ideology, reaction of whites and opposition, and reasons for its success. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Not only did this boycott change laws regarding public transportation in the United States, but also showed blacks that organizing and engaging in nonviolent protests could allow their collective voice
to be successfully heard. II. Early Laws Regarding Public Transportation in the United States A.) The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 prohibited racial inequality regarding public transportation
but did not exclude the practice of segregation, and the controversial Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) US Supreme Court decision introduced the concept of separate but equal. B.) Inequities regarding
train accommodations for blacks were outlawed by the decisions in Mitchell v. United States (1941) and Henderson v. United States (1950), and the decision in the case of Morgan v.
Virginia (1946) invalidated interstate bus passenger segregation, but did not prohibit intrastate segregation. III. Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and its Ideology A.)
When blacks in Baton Rouge, South Carolina successfully organized a bus boycott in 1953 that produced desired results, Montgomery officials took notice, and when the separate but equal concept was
removed from US public education in Brown v. Board of Education the following year, the time seemed to be right to tackle the busing segregation issue. B.) Local organizations such
as the Womens Political Council and the newly created Montgomery Improvement Association mobilized blacks in the community with a call to action. C.) The ideology was purposely limited in scope
with the expressed intention not to end segregation in America but to halt the humiliating treatment black bus passengers were receiving by condescending and insulting white drivers and seating arrangements;
delivering this message in black churches portrayed involvement in the boycott as a moral imperative. IV. Pre-Boycott Involvement, its Beginnings, and Participation A.) Claudette Colvin, an African-American student at
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