Many white bus drivers joined the White Citizens' Council as a result of the decision. The reaction by the white population of the Deep South was "noisy and stubborn". Board of Education, that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The year before the bus boycott began, the Supreme Court decided unanimously, in the case of Brown v. Many bus drivers treated their black passengers poorly beyond the law: African-Americans were assaulted, shortchanged, and left stranded after paying their fares. As a result of this segregation, African Americans were not hired as drivers, were forced to ride in the back of the bus, and were frequently ordered to surrender their seats to white people even though black passengers made up 75% of the bus system's riders. See also: History of civil rights in the United States, Civil rights movement (1865–1896), and Civil rights movement (1896–1954)īefore the bus boycott, Jim Crow laws mandated the racial segregation of the Montgomery Bus Line. Gayle took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were unconstitutional. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955-the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white person-to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling Browder v. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
But she chose not to because she didn’t want her family or the department to have to go through the scrutiny the next day on national news.” “And she knew that she should shoot this guy.
“She looked at me and said she thought she was going to die,” he told the audience at the awards ceremony. Johnson said he visited the officer in the hospital, where she told him why she did not draw her service weapon during the attack. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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