Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Rosa Parks was not the reason that the idea of the bus boycott was started. More than a year and a half before the arrest of Rosa Parks, Professor Jo Ann, the president of the Women's Political Council wrote to the Mayor of Montgomery of a very possible boycott. That's when the idea was proposed. The boycott lasted from May 1954 to Jan 1957. The day after Rosa Parks was arrested was when all of the Black Montgomery activists put the plan in action. The MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association) was an association dedicated to support the boycott. It was created on December 5, 1955 by black ministers and community leaders in Montgomery, Alabama. MIA worked on a lot of things to support the boycott like operating a car pool system which grew to have around 200 private automobiles managed by black churches. They also filed several lawsuits to challenge city and state segregation laws. Later the Federal judges rule that the city and bus segregation laws are unconstitutional.