Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott- Black leaders organized gatherings around parks with Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. as their leader. They organized a citywide boycott of the Montgomery bus system (after the Rosa Parks incident) on December 5, 1955-1956. They wanted to be able to sit anywhere they wanted instead of being forced to move when a white person boarded on the bus. This boycott lasted 382 days and in 20 December 1956, the boycott ended, and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the MIA’s case for desegregation. They agreed to let all bus travellers the same rights.
Protests
- Desegregation of the University of Alabama in 1963, standing in the schoolhouse door and promising segregation and African Americans saying "today, tomorrow, and forever,” . March on Washington August 28th, 1963, 200,000 and more blacks and whites gather on behalf of Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches.