Montgomery Bus Boycott News Article

On December 1,  the Montgomery Bus Boycott began, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. The blacks have decided they are tired and feel the time has come to boycott the buses. There was a mass meeting at the Holy Street Baptist Church. It was agreed that on Monday, December 5 all blacks were going to boycott riding the buses to work, to town, to school, and any other place. Today as you looked at the buses passed by they were empty. The usually overflowing buses were empty with the occasional person or two. The sidewalks are crowded with tons of men and women walking to work and school. A huge influential person that participated in this whole boycott was Martin Luther King Jr. On this day it was said that you could see him riding around with Ralph Abernathy with a smile on there face from the success of the boycott.