The Montgomery Bus Boycott occurred in 1955. On December 1, 1955 a black women named Rosa Park refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery Alabama city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. Many groups met up with each other to discuss about what happened to Rosa. “Martin Luther King Jr., fellow minister Ralph Abernathy and Alabama’s state chairman of

the NAACP called a public meeting. African Americans were urged to boycott the segregated city buses, and the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was formed”. (Martin Luther King, Jr. Pg. 1). The boycott lasted for 382 days. This caused the bus company to lose huge amount of money. The bus company discontinued segregated seats. “Segregated seating was discontinued and some African Americans were employed as bus drivers. When the U.S. Supreme court affirmed that the bus segregation laws of Montgomery were unconstitutional, the boycott ended in triumph for black dignity”. (Martin Luther King, Jr. Pg. 1). The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted almost a year in a half.

The years 1955 through 1963 marked the Civil Rights Movement. Many events happened through those years. These events were devoted to end discriminations. Each protest used the nonviolent resistance. The Civil Right movement was a long struggle for African Americans to gain civil rights.

Desegregation at Little Rock started in 1957. On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education that segregated schools were unequal and unconstitutional. In September 1957, as a result of that ruling, nine African-American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. When the nine African American students arrived at Central High they were kept from entering the school. They had to be surrounded by more than 1,000 US paratroopers to protect them from segregationist whites. Each student had his or her own guard. The students entered Central

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