The Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama was a crucial event in the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement. On the evening of December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks, a Montgomery seamstress on her way home from work, refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man and was subsequently arrested. The President of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), E.D. Nixon, used the arrest to launch a bus boycott to fight the city’s segregated bus policy. Together with Jo Ann Robinson of the Women’s Political Council, and other black leaders, Nixon set plans for the boycott.
The idea of the boycott had been floating around for months. Both Nixon and Robinson were waiting for a test cast to challenge the segregated bus policy in Court. They knew that they would have large support from black women who made up a majority of the bus users. The only thing missing was a good test candidate and respectable, middle-class Rosa Parks seemed perfect for the role.
On Friday December 2, Robinson created a flyer which she distributed to black families around Montgomery. The flyer told of the arrest of Parks and mentioned that 75% of the bus riders were blacks and if there was a boycott of the bus system then the city would be forced to pay attention to these customers. It then called for a boycott of the buses on Monday December 5th.
Robinson arranged a meeting with Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the ministers of two of the largest black churches in the city. While they hesitated at first, they ultimately agreed to participate and held a meeting at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, King’s church, to plan the boycott. A new organization, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), was created to lead the boycott and Rev. King was appointed its president. It was also decided that the boycott should continue until the buses were no longer segregated. In order to get people around town during the boycott, the churches bought or rented cars and station wagons to transport people.
Meanwhile boycott supporters challenged the legality of bus segregation in court. Their case, Browder v. Gayle, was eventually heard by the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled on November 13, 1956, in favor of the plaintiffs. The boycott ended on December 20, 1956, 381 days after it had begun. The buses in Montgomery were now integrated.
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Found outbl the sister in the infamous maxwell house incesty ad is Jeffrey Combes’ daughter
ok i pull up
Organization of the working class results in political wins
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gendermaxxing by putting guy deodorant under one arm and girl deodorant under the other
The funniest fact about the french revolution is that the Marquis de Sade was freed from his prison by the revolutionaries, where he sat for being a pervert and a radical, and he was then subsequently imprisoned by the revolutionaries fro being a pervert and a conservative.
I just got a new mechanical keyboard for my laptop, so imagine all my posts sound like this: CLACKA CLACKA CLACKA
(actually I make most of my posts with my phone so probably not…)
get a mechanical keyboard for your phone
CLACKA
ANOTHER CLACKKKA DOWN WITH EACH KEYSTROKE
Finally banned from r/politics for “incivility” let’s gooooo
It’s only for a day, but I told the mods I have no intention of ever being civil to genocide supporters and to do me a favor and ban me permanently. One step closer to my goal of leaving
for good
i like the 4 hour bomb boy video. i think it was well paced, informative, and entertaining. i enjoyed watching it and i look forward to another being made
Oh, I’m supposed to MAKE my partner come?! Fuck off, authoritarian.
The volcel police are proud of you
The people’s VOLCEL VANGUARD are on the scene! PLEASE RESERVE YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS FOR STRATEGIC ACTS OF MASS REVOLUTIONARY CUMMING!!!
Me, a child in 2013: “Wow! GTA 5! Too bad I am not an adult, I guess I’ll play the next one when I grow up!”
Me, an adult in 2021: “Ehhhh, GTA 5 is old tat and a bunch of microtransaction bullshit.”
Me, soon, holiday release 2025: “Oh look, GTA 6. Too bad my computer can’t really play games like those. Guess I’ll play it when I get an upgrade.”
Me, fifty seven, climate wars:
the amount of people making fun of kim jong un crying after a woman giving an account of her experiences under japanese occupation is so fucked
It’s a little fucked up that the new GTA trailer normalizes cars
Country song I just wrote:
*you can have
A truck you drive around
And you can have a second truck
For taking into town
And you’d better have a third truck
To prove that you are free
Well sir I’ve got 15 trucks
You’d best not tread on me*
Chorus:
Truck truck truck
Truck truck truck
Truck truck truck truck truck
R
Next verse:
*I’ve got nine hundred million trucks
Swarming this great land
Chances are you’ll hit my truck
Should you swing your hand
And a man can’t be a man
Unless he’s looking at a truck
So now I guess everyone can be a man
Cause I’ve filled the world with trucks *
(Chorus)
heh I wrote a country song about trucks too when I was working retail
Mine’s better
Yeah, yours isn’t forgotten
You’ll write a new one some day
i love how in one movie, Godzilla is the god and allegory of war/nuclear/fukushima, and then in another movie Godzilla is just some silly giant lizard who dropkicks people and fights Ultraman.
My protracted posting war has resulted in victory. AMA.