How did the Montgomery bus boycott start ?
The easy answer is Rosa Parks not giving up her seat is the reason that the boycott started. Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake’s demand that she relinquish her seat to a white man. Her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history, and launched Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the organizers of the boycott, to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Her role in American history earned her an iconic status in American culture, and her actions have left an enduring legacy for civil rights movements around the world. The more detailed answer begins with the reasons we had the Civil War or War between the states. Some of the issues that were expressed over a hundred years prior that brought about both the civil war and the 14th amendment were still very much in practice in the south during the
