Leaving Cert History (The United States and the Wider World Flashcards) Flashcards on 5.3 Montgomery Bus Boycott, created by samstevenson2014 on 25/05/2015.
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What were segregated in
Montgomery, Alabama?
What limited black job opportunities?
What percent of bus passengers were black?
Why?
On average what was black income in comparison to white income?
What and who encouraged resistance?
How did bus drivers retaliate to protests?
How old was Rosa Parks?
What was she a member of?
What date did she refuse to give up her seat in the 'black' section?
How many other blacks were with her and what did they do when the bus became crowded?
Why was Rosa Parks a perfect symbol for the NAACP?
What did Nixon get her to agree to?
What did MLK write?
What was the percent?
What was formed that night?
What did they propose at a mass meeting?
When the boycott continued, what did Montgomery's mayor predict?
What did blacks do instead?
What did some organise?
What did the city then do?
What did King set up?
Where did donations to pay for it come from?
How did Whites retaliate to the boycott?
How did whites try to discredit MLK?
What was he arrested for?
What else happened to MLK?
What did King demand?
What did NAACP do when there was no compromise?
How long did the boycott go on for in total?
What day did the boycott achieve its aims?
Who rode in the front seats of the first integrated bus?
What did Montgomery change about segregation?
What did the boycott undermine
What did it demonstrate?
What tactics became the model for the successful civil rights campaigns?
