Montgomery Alabama segregation was to keep blacks separated from the whites in all public and private places. It was an act of hate and ignorance
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They walked, had car pools, and did what they needed to do to get where they were going.
Since an overwhelming about of bus travelers were blacks and the seating on the bus was used to discriminate against blacks, a boycott on the bus system was a method to make segregation unprofitable.
the majority of them- more than 50%
They hoped to use economic pressure to end segregation on the buses.
it showed that everyone was the same so people stop thinking differently of blacks and whites
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In the year 1963, freedom riders were attacked in Montgomery, Alabama.
because they are black
That was Martin Luther King, back in the sixties.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott. As a political and social protest against the unjust ways Blacks were being unfairly treated, MLK, Jr. organized a mass boycott of the bus system--a system largely used by Blacks. It had crippling affects on the bus system and was eventually ended a little over a year later.