Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. Her …show more content…
Edgar Nixon and some ministers decided to take advantage of the momentum, forming the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to manage the boycott (History.com). The MIA was an organization that was established on December 5, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama as a grassroots movement to fight for civil rights for African Americans and specifically for the desegregation of the buses in Alabama's capital city (BlackPast.org). Rosa Parks was the only person that was arrested because a lot of people knew that she was a woman of unchallenged character who was held in high esteem by all those who knew her. After Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, she made a lot of flyers explaining what was going to happen during the boycott. She gave the flyers to the school students so that they could give it to their parents (History.com). Most of the blacks ended up walking everywhere that they had to go. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional (Power Library). The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is