The boycott clearly took months of PLANNING, solidarity, strategy, and commitment. NINE months elapsed from the time they met with the governor in March 1964 to the official start and mobilization of the boycott. It was NOT an overnight matter.
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📆December 20, 1956- The Supreme Court's orders of injuction against segregation on city buses are delivered to the Montgomery City Hall.
📆December 21, 1956- Montgomery's buses are officially desegregated. The MIA ends the boycott.
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📆November 13, 1956 - The Supreme Court upholds the district court ruling and strikes down laws requiring racial segregation on buses. The MIA resolves to end the boycott only when the order to desegregate is officially implemented.
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📆February 21, 1956- 80+ boycott leaders are indicted by the city under Alabama's anti-conspiracy laws.
📆March 19, 1956-Dr. King is indicted as a leader of the boycott and ordered to pay $500 or 386 days in jail.
📆June 5, 1956-A federal district court rules that bus segregation is unconstitutional.🧵⬇️

📆December 13, 1955 - The MIA implements a carpool system to support citizens taking part in the boycott.
📆January 30, 1956 - Dr. King's home is bombed. In response, Dr. King calls for peaceful protest rather than violent action.
📆February 1, 1956 - E. D. Nixon's home is bombed.
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The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) is created at this meeting, and Dr. King elected its president. The MIA votes to extend the boycott.
📆December 8, 1955 - The MIA issues a formal list of demands. The city refuses to comply.
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📆December 5, 1955 - Instead of the expected 60% turnout, an estimated 90%-100% of the black community in Montgomery chose to participate in the boycott. Black leaders meet to discuss the possibility of extending the boycott.
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📆December 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger.
📆December 2, 1955 - The WPC calls for a one-day bus boycott on December 5.
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📆March 1955 - Black leaders in Montgomery, including E. D. Nixon, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr., meet with city officials to discuss bus seating requirements.
📆October 21, 1955 - Mary Louise Smith was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman.
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📆March 1954 - The Women's Political Council (WPC) meets with Montgomery mayor W. A. Gayle to outline their recommended changes for the Montgomery bus system.
📆March 2, 1955 - Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman.
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🔹️These boycotts will not create change immediately. Stay the course!!!
⚠️Below is a breakdown of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. We are talking OVER A YEAR of work before any fruit was seen. Don't be discouraged. Don't give up. 💪🏾
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🔹️Remember that civil disobedience/boycotts take time. Social change, while it should be easy and linear, it is not. The process may need to happen several times. People may need to become more diligent in their form of resistance. Sometimes, it just be like that! KEEP GOING!
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🔹️⚠️Do NOT put yourself in debt, undue hardship or danger to participate in an economic boycott❗️
🔹️Every dollar that is withheld from a corporation is a win. If you normally spend $100 a month at Amazon, and you reduce your investment to $50 a month instead, good! ⬇️💲
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🔹️If you must shop, we all have needs and things come up, SHOP LOCAL!
🔹️If you are unable to get what you need from a local small business, try to shop with INDEPENDENTLY OWNED franchises/businesses.
🔹️If possible, use cash 💸
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Smh...

🚩 is a poor person who blames another poor person, while they excuse and acquiesce to the wealthy.
🚩 is not an aggressive defender and ally of the rights, culture, and existence of anyone who is not a cis-het white male❗️

Did mine like a week ago 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾