1. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott

2. Structure About Rosa Parks Background to the boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott in 1955
Aftermath
Influence

3. Rosa Parks (1913-2005) Born February 4th 1913
Attended a segregated school
Bullied by white children in her neighborhood
Finished high schools studies in 1933, at a time when less than 7 % of black people had a diploma
In 1943 became active in the Civil rights Movement and joined the NAACP in Montgomery
Died 2005 in Detroit

4. Background to the bus boycott
There had been refusals to give up their seats in 1942, 1946, 1952
Since 1900 the white and colored bus passengers in Montgomery were segregated by a city ordinance
Passengers were not required to give up their seats if the bus was crowded; however later on bus drivers adopted the custom of forcing black people to give up their seat if no white-only seats were left
Parks had already 1943 encountered the same bus driver James F Blake and decided never to ride again on his bus

6. The bus boycott in 1955
Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person in December 1st The bus driver, James F. Blake ended up calling the police, which led to the arrest of Parks.
She was convicted for civil disobedience

7. Aftermath Parks appealed her conviction
Leaflets were spread around announcing a bus boycott
The bus boycott among the black people lasted 381 days which damaged the transit company’s finances
The court case resulted eventually in abandoning the bus segregation
The district court of Montgomery declared racial segregation laws unconstitutional

8. Influence
Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement. She helped set the wheels in motion.
Today people have equal rights to use public facilities without being separated
Lies in honor in the Capitol Rotunda
Her birthday and day of arrest are both Rosa Parks Day in some U.S. states

9. The end