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DocuSign Envelope ID:06711178-0E3F-4541-A834-A91FC422F4D1 <br /> li <br /> (C)MIKE WILEY PRODUCTIONS 2005 <br /> The is <br /> Montgomery ro e t Associatio is B er <br /> On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa <br /> Parks boarded a city bus <br /> and sat with three other blacks in the t <br /> fifth row, <br /> the first row that blacks could occupy. <br /> A few stops later,the front four rows , <br /> were filled with whites, ' <br /> and one white man was left standing. <br /> According to law, <br /> blacks and whites could not occupy the Y <br /> same row, <br /> so the bus driver asked all four of the <br /> blacks seated in the fifth row to move. <br /> Three complied,but Parks refused. She 4. <br /> was arrested. <br /> When the boycott began,no one <br /> Martin Luther King,Jr., protest would be a success." expected it to last for very long. <br /> minister at Dexter Avenue He was pleasantly surprised Despite all the pressures to end <br /> Baptist Church,thought when bus after empty bus the boycott,blacks continued to <br /> that"if we could get 60 rolled past his house that stay off the buses. <br /> percent cooperation the morning."A miracle had They would no longer settle for <br /> taken place,"King would the moderate desegregation plan <br /> later write."The once that they had first proposed.Now, <br /> dormant and quiescent they would accept nothing less <br /> Negro community was now than full integration.The city <br /> fully awake."The group was fighting a losing battle.The <br /> from Friday night met again blacks were armed with the <br /> that afternoon and decided Brown V.Board decision,less <br /> to call themselves the than two years old,which said <br /> Montgomery Improvement that the"separate but equal" <br /> Association (MIA).They doctrine had no place in public <br /> elected King as president. education.Surely it must follow <br /> / <br /> that the doctrine had no place in <br /> any public facilities. <br /> When the city defended segregation by saying that <br /> integration would lead to violence,Judge Rives asked, Z:1E14, <br /> Is it fair to command one man to surrender his <br /> constitutional rights,if they are his constitutional `rte <br /> rights,in order to prevent another man from <br /> 01. <br /> committing a crime?"The federal court decided 2-1 in <br /> favor of the blacks,with the lone dissent coming from a <br /> Southern judge.The city,of course,appealed the ruling, <br /> but on November 13, 1956,the U.S.Supreme Court a <br /> upheld the lower court's ruling,declaring segregation on <br /> buses unconstitutional.The Montgomery Bus Boycott -�} L <br /> was officially over <br /> PAGE 2 <br />