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Thousands. The membership of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s organization to end segregation on Montgomery city buses has been estimated at 40,000-50,000. The 1956 African-American population of Montgomery was also estimated at 40,000, so the membership numbers may be somewhat inflated.
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∙ 14y agoArrested on Segregated Bus
Rosa Parks (seamstress, former NAACP secretary)
Rosa Parks' Attorney
Clifford Durr
Original Organizers of Boycott
Jo Ann Robinson (President, Women's Political Council)
E. D. Nixon (President, local chapter of NAACP)
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Elected President-Chairman)
Ralph Abernathy (Vice-President of association)
Johnnie Carr (civil rights leader, succeeded Dr. King as President)
Robert S. Graetz (secretary of organization)
Coretta Scott King
Mother Pollard
Bayard Rustin (civil rights leader, advised King on Gandhian peaceful resistance)
L. Roy Bennett (first vice-president of MIA, succeeded by Ralph Abernathy)
Moses W. Jones (second vice-president)
Erna Dungee (financial secretary)
U. J. Fields (recording secretary)
W. J. Powell (succeeded U. J. Fields as recording secretary)
E. N. French (corresponding secretary)
C. W. Lee (assistant treasurer)
A. W. Wilson (parliamentarian)
Reverend R. J. Glasco
Rev. L. Roy Bennett
Rev. J. W. Hayes
Rev. H. H. Hubbard
Rev. J. C. Parker
Glenn Smiley
Maude Ballou
Fred Gray (founding member MIA)
Rev. Robert E. Hughes (negotiator)
Lillie Thomas Armstrong Hunter
Vernon Johns
Rufus Lewis (nominated King as President of MIA)
Thomas Mboya
Solomon Seay
Robert D. Nesbitt (executive board member, treasurer)
Sandy Frederick Ray
Lawrence Reddick (History Committee)
T. Y. Rogers
Gardner Taylor
Irene West
Mary Fair Burks
Uretta Adair
Juliette Hampton Morgan
Rev. Joseph Lowery
Virginia Durr
N. W. Walton (History Committee)
J. E. Pierce (History Committee)
Jo Ann Robinson (founder, see above, History Committee)
Rev. B. J. Simms (Transportation Dept.)
(total MIA membership alleged to be 40,000-50,000)
Browder v. Gayle, (1956)
Plaintiffs of Browder v. Gayle
Aurelia Browder
Claudette Colvin
Susie McDonald
Mary Louise Smith
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
Fred Gray
Charles Langford
Charles Carter (NAACP, New York)
Advisors to Attorneys, Browder v. Gayle
Robert Carter (NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
Thurgood Marshall (NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
Defendants
City of Montgomery, William Gayle, Mayor
Alabama Public Service Commission
Montgomery Board of Commissioners
Chief of Police (unnamed)
Montgomery City Lines, Inc.
Mr. Blake (bus driver)
Mr. Cleere (bus driver)
Defense Attorneys
Walter Knabe (Montgomery City Attorney)
John Patterson (Alabama Attorney General)
US District Court for Middle District of Alabama Judges
Judge Johnson (Majority, for Plaintiffs)
Judge Rives (Majority, for Plaintiffs)
Judge Lynne (Dissenting)
US Supreme Court (Affirmed, unanimous)
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Justice Hugo Black
Justice Stanley Forman Reed
Justice Felix Frankfurter
Justice William O. Douglas
Justice Harold Hitz Burton
Justice Tom C. Clark
Justice John Marshall Harlan II
Justice William Brennan, Jr.
Alabama v. M. L. King, (1956)
Plaintiff of Alabama v. M. L. King
State of Alabama
Prosecuting Attorneys
William Thetford
Robert B. Stewart
Maury D. Smith
Defendant of Alabama v. M. L. King
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Conspiracy charges)
Defense Attorneys
Arthur D. Shores (NAACP)
Fred Gray
Charles Langford
Peter A. Hall
Orzell Billingsley
Known Witnesses for Defense
Thelma Williams Glass
Georgia Gilmore
Martha K. Walker
Stella Brooks
Henrietta Brinson
Gladys Moore
Known Witnesses for Prosecution
Joe Azbell (journalist)
Bunny Honicker (journalist)
Montgomery Circuit Court Judge
Judge Eugene Carter
Provided Financial Support for Boycott
and Legal Defense
George Dennis Sale Kelsey
Stanley Levinson
Chester Bliss Bowles
Archibald Carey
NAACP
Ralph Helstein
Roy Wilkins
Vivan Mason
James Peck
Charles C. Digs (House of Representatives, MI)
William H. Gray
Joseph Jackson
In Friendship
(others)
Fundraising Concert
Duke Ellington
Harry Belafonte
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∙ 11y agoMany people, mostly African-Americans, participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Hundreds and thousands of people boycotted the Montgomery buses. Some of the most notable boycotters are Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, and Ralph Abernathy.
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∙ 13y agoEstimates range from 17,000 to 40-50,000. Considering the population census from Montgomery, Alabama, in 1950 and 1960, the true number is probably closer to 17,000.
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What are six effects of the montgomery boycott?
The six effects of the Montgomery Bus Boycott included firing of buses, killings, bombing of churches, employment blacklisting, increased activism, and many others.
How many weeks did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
The Montgomery bus boycott began December 5, 1955 and ended December 20, 1956, 54 weeks and 2 days later.
How many days did the Montgomery boycott spurred on by Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat to a white man?
the boycott lasted a year and they won
About how many African Americans were living in Montgomery at the time of bus boycott?
About 50,000 African Americans.
How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last and who led it?
The Montgomery bus boycott began on December 5, 1955 and ended 381 days later on December 20, 1956, after the US Supreme Court declared segregated busing unconstitutional in Browder v. Gayle, (1956).Martin Luther King, Jr., led the boycott with the assistance of the NAACP and many church pastors.
Because the bus boycott was so effective many leaders in Montgomery tried to retaliate by arresting Mrs. Parks for not paying her fine and King on organizing an illegal boycott and what other charge?
Drunk Driving
What important events did Rosa parks participate in?
she got africain americans rights has did so many others
What factors contributed to the outbreak of violence in the fight for civil rights?
Mass Action was born out of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1957 (instigated by Rosa Parks and the NAACP), which contributed to the growth. Out of the MBB, Martin Luther King arose as a prominent leader, which also contributed. MLK gained white and black support, and targeted mainly souther christians. Later, Malcolm X arose from the Nation of Islam, but was more radical and into Black Power. Malcolm X reached out to those that MLK could not - mainly Nothern Ghetto blacks.
How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
The Montgomery bus boycott began on December 5, 1955 and ended 381 days later on December 20, 1956, after the US Supreme Court declared segregated busing unconstitutional in Browder v. Gayle, (1956).
What was the bus boycott?
It was a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama (not Memphis) bus system after Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955. The incident touched off a year long boycott of the bus system by the Black citizens of Montgomery. This created a lot of hardship for them because many of them had no cars and their only means of getting to work, school, and shopping was by bus. In December 1956 the Supreme Court declared Alabama's bus segregation laws unconstitutional.
How many days did Rosa parks Montgomery bus boycott last?
The boycott lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956. That is 20 days.
How many years did the Montgomery boycott bus last?
It lasted a little more than one year.The Montgomery bus boycott began on December 5, 1955, a few days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man, and ended on December 20, 1956, after the Supreme Court declared segregation on public transportation unconstitutional. In all, the boycott lasted 381 days, or 1 year and 16 days.
