What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : And it was the WPC, who had been organizing against bus segregation for years, that decided to call a boycott for Monday, the day Parks would be arraigned.
60% : But Black Montgomery residents kept at it.With the city trying to break the protest, Gray decided to file a proactive federal case, Browder v Gayle, to challenge Montgomery’s bus segregation, worried that the state would prevent Parks’s appeal after her arrest on the bus.
51% : Parks fundraised for Colvin’s case and encouraged the teenager to take a leadership role in her NAACP Youth Council.But a mass movement did not result, in part because the judge threw out the segregation charge and only found Colvin guilty of assaulting an officer and in part because many adults saw Colvin as too young, poor and feisty to rally behind.

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