Causes and Consequences of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Bus Boycott
Causes
Mistreatment of African Americans
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Slavery
Jim Crow Laws
Murder of Emmett Till
Challenges to Jim Crow Laws
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Sarah Keys and Claudette Colvin
Rosa Parks' actions
Consequences
White Backlash
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In Montgomery
Little Rock
Bull Connor
Medgar Evers
Sunday School Bombing
Rise of Martin Luther King
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Birmingham
March on Washington
Nobel Peace Prize
Assassination
Students get involved
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Freedom Rides
Sit ins
Legal Success
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Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Division in the movement
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Watts Riot
Selma
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Impact on groups
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African Americans in Montgomery
Young African Americans
Southern Whites