1. Please write out the ENTIRE paragraph, filling in the blanks as
you go along.
After the slaves were freed with the ____th Amendment, it was
still necessary to make sure African-Americans were equal to their
white counterparts. The ____th Amendment said that former
slaves were citizens and were equal to the whites. But the whites
were not ready for this. They made racial discrimination against
African Americans legal with the ______ ______ laws. In
addition, the Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Ferguson made the
doctrine _______ but _______ a reality – as long as blacks had
equal facilities, it didn’t matter if they were separated from the
whites. This is known as ___________, or the separation or
isolation of a race. African-Americans organized and formed the
NAACP, also known as the National ___________ for the
Advancement of __________ People. It was the monumental
case known as __________ vs. the ________ of ___________
that said that separate is NOT equal and banned segregation in
public education.

2. Objective: To examine the causes and effects of the
Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.

3. How and What did Rosa
protest?
• On December 1, 1955,
forty-three year old
Rosa Parks boarded a
Montgomery,
Alabama city bus
after finishing work as
a tailor's assistant at
the Montgomery Fair
department store.

4. How and What did Rosa
protest?
• As all black
patrons were
required to do,
she paid her fair
at the front of the
bus and then re-
boarded in the
rear.

5. How and What did Rosa
protest?
• The bus became crowded and Rosa
was ordered by the bus driver to give
up her seat to a white passenger.
• Rosa Parks remained in her seat.
The bus driver again asked her to
move, but she refused.

6. Arrest and the Montgomery Bus
Boycott
• The bus driver called the police and Parks was
arrested for refusing to yield her seat to a white
patron.
• Mrs. Parks was found guilty of disorderly
conduct and that led directly to the famous
Montgomery Bus Boycott, which eventually led
to the desegregation of buses throughout the
United States. This ushered in a new era of
the civil rights movement.

8. Dr. King: Listen to Dr. King and Ralph Abernat
(1:53)
· The NAACP, with
the help of Reverend
Martin Luther King,
Jr., organized a bus
boycott in
Montgomery.
· Without black riders,
white owned bus
companies stood to
lose a lot of money.
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
from left, at a press conference. (May 26, 1963)

11. An empty bus passes by during the Montgomery Bus Boycott,
1956.

12. · King was arrested, his house was bombed, yet the boycott
continued.
· King
insisted that
his followers
follow civil
disobedience,
or nonviolent
protests
against
unjust laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested,
Montgomery, Alabama, 1958.
(Photograph by Charles Moore)

13. A hard-won battle:
· In 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses
was unconstitutional.
· Therefore, the Montgomery bus company agreed to integrate
their buses and hire black bus drivers.
Dr. King and his
wife, Coretta, at
the conclusion of
the boycott.

14. Dr. King and
Reverend
Ralph
Abernathy
riding a bus
on the first
day for
desegregated
buses in
Montgomery,
AL.
(December
21, 1956)

15. ROSA PARKS, MLK, and Leadership
Divide your sheet of paper into 3 columns. Work with a partner or
in a group of 3, but all of you must write down the answers in
your composition book
Many people consider Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King to be
leaders.
• Column 1 - Label “Rosa Parks”: What are three
characteristics that made Rosa Parks a leader?
• Column 2 - Label “MLK”: What are three characteristics
that made Martin Luther King a leader?
• Column 3 - Label “_____”: Who do all three of you
consider to be an important leader in your lives? What
are 3 characteristics that make this person a leader?
4) On the bottom of the paper, write down how is this
person similar or different from Rosa Parks and MLK?
5) On the bottom of the paper, write down how are leaders