Montgomery+Bus+Boycott+Captions

Captions- ~The laws stated that we had to sit in the back of the bus, but if the white section of the bus was full, we would have to get up and give them our seats. That was the law we were going to try to change.

~When Rosa Parks, a good friend of mine, refused to give up her seat she was arrested and put in jail.

~This was the start of our boycott. We would not ride the buses anymore. We used carpools, walked and rode our bikes to where ever we needed to go.

~People were very motivated to follow through with this...

~"My feets is weary, but my soul is rested." Mother Pollard

~"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in." Rosa Parks

~We elected Mr. King as our leader. When we later voted if we would like to continue our boycott, the vote was unanimously yes. So we continued our boycott

~King said that '‘Mrs. Parks was ideal for the role assigned to her by history,’’ and because ‘‘her character was impeccable and her dedication deep-rooted’’ she was ‘‘one of the most respected people in the Negro community’’.

~Other women were arrested to. Jo Ann Robinson put plans for a one-day boycott into action. She helped to organize rides for them and helped carry the boycott.

~After 13 long months of mass protests. it ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. We could now sit where we wanted to on the bus.

~We believe that the boycott "helped to launch a 10-year national struggle for freedom and justice, the Civil Rights Movement, that stimulated others to do the same at home and abroad."

~In 1958, "Stride Toward Freedom", King’s memoir of the boycott, he declared the real meaning of the Montgomery bus boycott to be the power of a growing self-respect to animate the struggle for civil rights. And we agreed.