Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Claudette Colvin was arrested

    Claudette Colvin was arrested
    She was arrested for violating bus segregation laws.
  • Mary Louise Smith Arrested

    Mary Louise Smith Arrested
    For violating bus segregation laws.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus so she was arrested. "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear."
  • Rosa Parks is convicted in city court

    Rosa Parks is convicted in city court
    This sparks a one day bus boycott and an MIA meeting with thousands of black citizens in suport of bus boycott
  • MIA and bus company negotianions

    Bus company offers more fair seeting for black riders but the meeting goes into dead lock.
  • Browder v. Gayle

    Lawsuit on behalf of four female plantifs to challegent he city and state segregation laws
  • Investigation of bus boycott

    Montgomery starts and investigation into whether the bus boycott violates a state boycott conspiracy law.
  • Montgomery indicts leaders

    Indicted 90 boycott leaders for violating state laws about boycotts.
  • King is found guilty of the boycott conspiracy law

    King is found guilty of the boycott conspiracy law
  • US supreme court dismiss an apeal to outlaw bus segregation in SC

    Montgomery bus company impliments deseregation plan
  • Montgomery Federal Court head Browder v Gayle suit

    Challenges bus segregation law with the cases or Claudette, Mary Louise and 2 others.
  • Federal Judges rule the segregation laws are unconstitutional

  • MIA holds mass meeting and votes to end boycott

  • Black citizens desegregate buses after over year long boycott

    Bus company returns to full service