1. Module 15 Lesson 1: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
By: Maria

2. Page Summary
African American activist started to get impatient which had begun taking direct action to win the rights the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution promised them. Jo Ann Gibson Robinson was one of the activist who wanted change.

3. Page Summary
Four days after the Brown decision in May 1954, Robinson wrote a letter to the mayor of Montgomery, Alabama. In it she asked that bus drivers no longer be allowed to force riders in the “colored” section to yield their seats to whites. The mayor refused. Rosa Parks sat down and was later told to get up for a white man, she refused and was arrested.

4. Page Summary
The news spread and Jo Ann Gibson Robinson and NAACP leaders decided to make a one day bus boycott which was successful. They then formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to coordinate efforts and elected the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 26-year-old Martin Luther King Jr., to lead the group.

6. Page Summary
On the night of December 5, 1955, Dr. King addressed an estimated crowd of between 5,000 and 15,000 people, calling for justice. King’s passionate speech brought people to their feet and filled the audience with a sense of mission. African Americans filed a lawsuit not to ride the busses for 381 days. The boycotters remained nonviolent. Finally, in 1956 the Supreme Court outlawed bus segregation.

7. Boycotting Segregating
Rosa parks entered a bus and sat down in the “colored” section, she was then asked to get up so a white man could sit down she refused to, then she was arrested. The news spread so a bus boycott was planned, it was successful so the NAACP got Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the Montgomery Improvement Association

8. Walking for Justice
On December 5, 1955 Martin Luther King Jr. was calling for justice and he made a speech in front of a crowd of 5,000 to 15,000, African Americans filed a lawsuit and chose to not ride busses for 381 days, the boycotts remained calm even when a bomb ripped apart Dr. King’s home, later on in 1956 the Supreme Court outlawed bus segregation.