Jo Ann Robinson started the boycott of buses (school teacher) with printing letters that Thursday night
The city tired to sue the NAACP for the 13,15,16 amendment for the boycott
The church played an important role in many areas of the civil rights movement. The MONTGOMERY bus protest brought the various denominations of clergy to the front of social action and united them in common causes. Congregations looked up to their pastors out of respect for the church but also because these men were often the most highly educated in their community.
The NAACP chooses Rosa parks to be the face of the civil rights movement because she was light skin and was an ideal image. She had a job, attended school and had many positions of power within the church and community and her arrest was clean. She was not the only women involved because multiple Women had altercations on the buses before her and there were other bus boycotts going on.
The bus drivers were given police powers. They were allowed to carry firearms and sometimes they went off on the bus and people were hurt.
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