Answer:
A.) It inspired bus boycotts in other cities, spreading the civil rights movement.
Explanation:
Montgomery bus boycott was a civil right protest campaign against the racial segregation policy prevalent in the buses in the city of Alabama. Soon it spread to other cities spreading the cause of movement.
Further explanation:
The practice of racial segregation is deeply rooted in the history of the United States. Montgomery Bus Boycott was one such event in which the anger of African Americans burst out in form of protest and soon it attracts national concern.
<u>Long term discontent</u>
We know about the Jim crow laws and violence faced by African Americans. It mandated the racial segregation in the Montgomery Bus services and the African Americans were required to enter the buses from the back door and there was separation of seats in which first preference as given to the white folks. Secondly, seventy percent of passengers were backs who are only allowed to take back seats. Even African Americans were not hired as drivers because drivers have the power to allocate seats.
There were many cases of racial segregation. Cases of Racial segregation like that of Baton Rouge Bus Boycott, arrest of Claudette Colvin and cases of murder and violence against Blacks outraged the people. Political activists and organization such National Association for the Advancement of Colored People started to compile the cases to make the subject strong.
<u>Immediate discontent</u>
On the first of December 1955, Rosa park (an African American woman) was sitting in the first row of the middle section. According to law, the first ten seats were reserved for whites while the last ten were reserved for blacks and the middle could be accompanied by both but if a white member enters the bus, in that case, a black person has to leave the seats for him. Rosa park refused to do so and arrested by Police.
<u>Protest</u>
This event called for a protest against the Bus services in Montgomery and soon spread to other cities. The protest started from the fifth of December 1955 to 20 December 1956, when Finally Supreme court recognized that these laws in Alabama and Montgomery were unconstitutional.
Learn more:
About Montgomery Bus Boycott brainly.com/question/1199306; answered by Taskmasters
About Montgomery Bus Boycott brainly.com/question/9385547; answered by MrDonovan
Key words:
Montgomery Bus Boycott, racial segregation, civil right.
