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What is nonviolence?

Who inspired MLK to use nonviolent

techniques?

MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT

Key Points Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to

white passengers on the bus she was riding. This event sparked the Montgomery Bus

Boycott, African Americans refused to ride city buses and used other forms of transportation

The boycott lasted 381 days and cost the city a lot of money

Eventually laws changed and African American could sit wherever they wanted on buses.

December 1, 1955 December 20, 1956

Under the system of segregation used on Montgomery buses, white people who boarded the bus took seats in the front rows, filling the bus toward the back. Black people who boarded the bus took seats in the back rows, filling the bus toward the front. Eventually, the two sections would meet, and the bus would be full. If other black people boarded the bus, they were required to stand. If another white person boarded the bus, then everyone in the black row nearest the front had to get up and stand, so that a new row for white people could be created. Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the back.[

Black taxi drivers charged ten cents per ride, a fare equal to the cost to ride the bus, in support of the boycott.

Instead of riding buses, boycotters organized a system of carpools

http://www.tolerance.org/activity/bus-boycott-historical-documents-highlig