Question

Based on the number of black and white city bus riders, what can you infer about transportation in Montgomery?

Answer 1

Answer: There was racial segregation in Montgomery's public transport system.

Explanation:

Jim Crow laws authorized racial segregation of transportation in Montgomery. Due to this reason, African Americans were not employed as drivers, were compelled to sit at the back of the bus, and were sometimes told to give up their seats for white people.

There were also attack on African-American passengers and they were also shortchanged by the bus drivers. Some of the reasons attributed to this behavior by drivers were frustration, racism, hatred towards blacks disputes and labor conditions, and increased animosity towards blacks.

This eventually led to the Montgomery bus boycott which was a social and political protest against racial segregation in the transport system in Montgomery, Alabama. The protest was as a result of the arrest of Rosa Parks, an African-American woman who was taken into custody for declining to give up her seat to a white