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Flashcards by samstevenson2014, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by samstevenson2014
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| Question | Answer |
| What were segregated in Montgomery, Alabama? | Schools, work, city council services, transport |
| What limited black job opportunities? | Limited education |
| What percent of bus passengers were black? Why? | 75% They could not afford cars |
| On average what was black income in comparison to white income? | Half |
| What and who encouraged resistance? | NAACP and Brown Judgement |
| How did bus drivers retaliate to protests? | Carrying guns and calling police to arrest protestors |
| How old was Rosa Parks? What was she a member of? | 42 NAACP |
| What date did she refuse to give up her seat in the 'black' section? | Thursday, 1st December 1955 |
| How many other blacks were with her and what did they do when the bus became crowded? | 3 others Gave up their seats |
| Why was Rosa Parks a perfect symbol for the NAACP? | She was respectable, quiet and unthreatening |
| What did Nixon get her to agree to? | A one-day boycott of buses on Monday (the day of her trial) |
| What did MLK write? | That he would have considered a 60% boycott a success |
| What was the percent? | Over 90% |
| What was formed that night? | Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) with King as president |
| What did they propose at a mass meeting? | Continuing the boycott until: seats were given on first come, first served blacks were respected by bus drivers bus company hired black drivers |
| When the boycott continued, what did Montgomery's mayor predict? | 'Come the first rainy day and the Negroes will be back on the buses' |
| What did blacks do instead? | Walk and cycle to work or got lifts from friends in cars |
| What did some organise? | Taxi services, charing 10c for a ride |
| What did the city then do? | Revive an old law that forbade taxis to charge less than 45c, more than blacks could afford |
| What did King set up? Where did donations to pay for it come from? | A private taxi service Black and white sympathisers across America |
| How did Whites retaliate to the boycott? | Activists were sacked from jobs Police harassed black drivers Black citizens were assaulted, sometimes even fired on by snipers |
| How did whites try to discredit MLK? | Spreading rumours he was embezzling funds |
| What was he arrested for? | Breaching Alabama's anti-boycotting laws Found guilty and fined $500 |
| What else happened to MLK? | His home was bombed while his wife and baby were in it |
| What did King demand? | Black mobs put away guns and 'love out white brothers no matter what they do to us' |
| What did NAACP do when there was no compromise? | Took a case against bus segregation and won |
| How long did the boycott go on for in total? What day did the boycott achieve its aims? | 382 days 21 December 1956 |
| Who rode in the front seats of the first integrated bus? | Nixon, King and Parks and other black people |
| What did Montgomery change about segregation? | Very little Segregation continued in other parts of life |
| What did the boycott undermine What did it demonstrate? | The idea that blacks were happy being second class citizens Tenacity and courage of black people |
| What tactics became the model for the successful civil rights campaigns? | Non-violent protest and legal action |
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