Importance Of The Boycott

Question 1

Reasons for the boycot’s success

Answer 1

Well Organised.
Dedication from lawyers and boycotters.
Well publicised.
The bus company was hurt financially.

Question 2

Well organised.

Answer 2

The MIA coordinated the campaign effectively so the boycott could last.

Question 3

Well publicised

Answer 3

The campaign was publicised through church meetings and local newspapers.This helped supporters get organised and increased the number of boycotters

Question 4

Commited to success.

Answer 4

Everyone involved was commited and dedicated.The boycotters recieved threats that they would be fired from their jobs and some were physically attacked.However they were prepared to continue.The NAACP lawyers were also commited they filed Browder va Gayle and argued their case

Question 5

Maedia coverage was a reason for success.

Answer 5

Due to the fierce opposition to the boycott it increased media coverage.The media reporters and readers were very sympathetic towards the boycotters as they were being attacked

Question 6

1 February 1956

Answer 6

The NAACP lawyers brught a case to desegregate Montogomery buses.On 1 February 1956 they filed Browder vs Gayle against bus segregation in Montgomery.They argued it went against the 14th Amendment.

Question 7

5 June 1956

Answer 7

The Supreme Court ordered that segregation on buses was unconstitutional , buses should be desegregated.They gave the Brown decision as their resson.

Question 8

20 December 1956

Answer 8

He MIA finally decided to call off the boycott

Question 9

Significance of Martin Luther King

Answer 9

He tried to appeal to all Americans regardless of race - he appealed to people’s shared humanity.
Made many powerful speeches that influenced his huge audience.
He always advocated a non violent approach.

Question 10

The brown case and bus boycott led to

Answer 10

Increased public support for civil rights and a civil rights act was passed on Congress

Question 11

The 1957 Civil Rights Act

Answer 11

The act aimed to increas black voter registration.
It made it illegal to obstruct voter registration and allowed federal courts to prosecute states that did not gurantee citizen’s voting rights

Question 12

Disadvantages of the 1957 Civil Rights Act

Answer 12

All white juries in the south were unlikely to uphold federal prosecution of state violations of voting rights