by Corey Townsend

I'm doing my report on the Montgomery bus boycott.

    The boycott began on December 1, 1955. It ended on December 21, 1956. The event started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and was arrested. This occurence made people very angry, because two other women were arrested for the same reason.

The type of protest they used was the boycott. Jo Ann Robinson organized it. She tried to get everyone to stop riding the buses by making thousands of leaflets. Martin Luther King Jr. led the movement. People had to walk and ride a cab to work and school for a year and twenty days. People who participated in the boycott were harrassed and beaten because most of the whites were angry. The key moments were when Rosa Parks was arrested, Jo Ann Robinson and others protested, and they won. It took a lot of hard work just to do it.

    The boycotters brought a lawsuit with help from the NAACP. The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed bus segregation. The boycott ended. Now they were back riding the bus sitting where they pleased. They sat in front, back, anywhere they liked.

    I think the protest was a success. They worked hard and they deserved to get what they did. They ended up happy and won the case after all. Like the saying: THEY TOOK WHAT THEY COULD STAND UNTIL THEY COULDN'T STAND NO MORE!!!!!!!