The+Montgomery+Bus+Boycott+tye

December 1, 1955 was the day the Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started. This meant that all blacks would stop riding busses until they could sit anywhere they wanted. Whites thought that they were better than blacks just because of skin color, even though they had no choice of what color they were. Blacks were a huge part of the city busses income because they usually didn't have enough money to buy a car. So when they went on strike it gave the city no choice but to listen. It all started when a lady named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white male on the city bus. The white man wasn't enough of a gentleman to just let the lady sit there so had her arrested. Nixon was the president at the time and heard what had happened so he rushed to the jail and bailed her out. He later asked her, "Mrs. Parks, with your permission we can break down segregation on the bus with your case." She thought it over and decided that she would do it.