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1 Montgomery bus boycott Adam Bylund Jordan Lesewski Matt Jellum

2 What is it?  Montgomery bus boycott was a plan called for African Americans to refuse to use the entire bus system until the bus company agreed to change its segregation policy.

3 Who is rosa parks?  Rosa parks is a seamstress who had been secretary of Montgomery NAACP for 12 years. Rosa parks on the bus. 

4 What is rosa parks story?  Rosa parks story of the Montgomery bus boycott event was that she took a seat in the middle section of a bus, where both African Americans and whites sit. When a white man got on and had no seat the bus driver ordered parks to give up her seat, but she refused even when threatened arrest. At the next stop police seized her and ordered her to stand trial for violating segregation laws.

5 Is rosa parks still alive?  Died on October 25 th 2005

6 What did the boycott lead to?  It produced a new generation of African American leaders and introduced non- violent protests as a means of achieving equality.

7 What impact did boycott have on African American & white people?  It helped get rid of segregation against African Americans.

8 Other forms of protest  Sit-in-the congress of racial equality (core) created the sit-in in 1943 to desegregate the jack spratt coffee house in chicago.

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