Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 1

What is MIA

Answer 1

Montgomery Improvement Association

Question 2

What happened on 8 December 1955

Answer 2

MIA met with bus company officials.They refused to change the segregation on the buses.Mia decided to boycott until they won

Question 3

What did the boycott involve ?

Answer 3

MIA held meetings with church groups to plan car sharing.12 December csr pools began and grew to involve 300 cars.Taxies were also made cheapee

Question 4

Opposition to the Boycott

Answer 4

MLK’s house got bombed.He responded with peaceful protest and no retaliation

Question 5

How did the violence in response help the peaceful protest

Answer 5

Increased media coverage of the boycott.Media reports were largely sympathetic to civil rights campaigners

Question 6

What did the bus boycott lead to

Answer 6

Led to increased public support for civil rights

Question 7

Civil Rights Act 1957

Answer 7

Act aimed to increase black voter registration.Made it illegal to obstruct voter registration.Allowed federal courts to prosecute states that dis not guarantee citizens’s voting rights

Question 8

Boycott led to desegregation on buses

Answer 8

NAACP brought a case to desegregate Montgomery buses.1 February 1956 there lawyers filed Browder vs Gayle against bus segregation.They argued it sent against the 14th Amendment.5 June 1956 Supreme Court ordered segregation on buses was unconstitutional.