The penalty for sitting in the wrong car was either 20 days in jail or a $25 fine. Plessy agreed, and purchased a first-class ticket on the train to Covington, Louisiana. He took a seat in the Whites Only car and waited for the conductor. When the conductor arrived, Plessy informed him that he was 1/8 Black and that he was refusing to move to the colored car. The conductor called the police and had Plessy arrested immediately; he spent the night in the local jail and was released the next morning on bond.
Under William Anderson, a number of local black organisations were formed in an attempt to desegregate the city. By mid-December, 500 demonstrators had been jailed. Anderson invited King’s help to maintain the movement and secure national publicity for the non-violent protest. The tactics of non-violence however did not work because the Head of Police in Albany, Laurie Pritchett, had learned from previous protests and campaigns that no violence should be used against the protestors to ensure less media coverage and less sympathy for the black protestors. Pritchett went on to arrest protestors but he made sure that the jails were not filled by them.
The black community organized and distributed 35,000 leaflets asking Blacks to stay off the buses that day. During the boycott Blacks rode in carpools, while others traveled in black-operated cabs that charged the same fare as the bus, 10 cents. Most of the remainder of the 40,000 black commuters walked, some as far as 20 miles. In the end, the boycott lasted for 382 days. Dozens of public buses stood idle for months, severely damaging the bus transit company's finances.
How important was the Montgomery bus boycott in changing the civil rights of African-Americans? The Montgomery bus boycott was an event that started in the, 1st, December 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a segregated bus to a white man, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott to occur. I think this event was the most important in changing the civil rights of African-Americans. However, other event like ‘little rock’ and the ‘sit-ins’ were also very important events in changing civil rights. I believe the Montgomery bus boycott was the most important event in the 1950s -1960s in changing the civil rights for African-Americans, because this event gained internationally attention.
She refused to give up her seat at the front road of the colored section to a white person. Then, the police came to force her to get out of the bus and arrested her. Her movements created a bigger movement include all the blacks in Alabama. All the blacks started boycott on bus, it affects lots of Bus Company shut down their business. This event was a major affair that leaded
During this time Rosa Parks was arrested for failure to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery city bus. In 1955, the incident regarding the bus lite a fire under the Civil Rights Movement. Kings experience, passion for the cause and position in the community gave him the credentials to become a leader of the 381 day boycott of the city buses. On December 20, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled segregated buses to be unconstitutional this was a major victory for the Civil Rights cause and also proved that Kings non-violent methods of protest could yield
“Daybreak of Freedom”, p.25) The segregation law of the bus system was one of the major areas of resentment among Montgomery blacks in that times. They constituted 60% of the bus clientele but very often faced oppressive conditions on buses. Derogatory names such as “nigger”, “black cow” and “black ape” were used by the bus drivers on regular basis, all of who were white. Sometimes blacks were asked to pay their fares in the front of the bus and then walk to the back door to board
Mayella Ewell, a white girl, often asked him to help her with her chores and he of course did. One time when he was helping her she kissed him but when her father saw she was embarressed and said he raped her and beat her up. The thing was she had bruises on the left side of her face but Tom was paralyzed in the left arm after he got stuck in a cotton making machine, so he could not have done it. Still the jury convicted him guilty of all charges. Its very likely that he was only found guilty because he was black.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE USA The Boston Tea Party was one of the most famous acts of civil disobedience in American history. Susan B. Anthony was arrested for illegally voting in the United States House of Representatives elections, 1872 in order to protest female disenfranchisement.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, James Bevel, Rosa Parks, and other activists in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s used civil disobedience techniques. Among the most notable civil disobedience events in the U.S. occurred when Rosa Parks refused to move on the bus when a white man tried to take her seat. Although 15-year old Claudette Colvin had done the same thing nine months earlier, Parks' action led directly to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
African American Struggles in the 1900s African Americans were faced with an insurmountable number of struggles and obstacles during the 1900s time period. Segregation: * Jackie Robinson is singed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947. * Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, December I, 1955, for not giving up her seat on the bus, for a white man, in the front of the ‘Colored Section’. In retaliation the community boycotted all public city transportation, such as buses, for one year. The buses were finally desegregated December 21, 1956.