On Dec. 5, 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. It is one of the - TopicsExpress



          

On Dec. 5, 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. It is one of the most powerful stories of organizing and social change in U.S. history. Yet many people still associate it with an isolated act by Rosa Parks, without the context of Parks own life of activism, the decades of protests of Jim Crow on public transportation across the country, nor the role of the Womens Political Council of Montgomery. Out of Montgomery’s 50,000 African American residents, 30,000-40,000 participated in the boycott. For 381 days, they walked or bicycled or car-pooled, depriving the bus company of a substantial portion of its revenue. Here is a brief description from BlackPast.org: bit.ly/enBmxK Here are resources for teaching outside the textbook about the Boycott: bit.ly/SxBylC Photo: Walking to work, 1956. ©Don Cravens/Time Life/Getty Images.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:04:35 +0000

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