Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
1) Topeka City, Kansas
2) 13 Topeka Parents led by Oliver L. Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka
3) Parents wanted the BoE to remove its School Segregation (school for black and school for white) for it's a blatant racial discrimination.
4) Supreme court agreed that School Segregation is unconstitutional.
Rosa Parks Bus Ride
1) Montgomery City, Alabama
2) Rosa Parks and Driver of Montgomery City Bus
3) Montgomery City Bus observe segregation; 10 seats are reserved for white people, the rest are for coloured people. Rosa was asked to move from her bus seat, which was a section for coloured people, so that the excess white man can occupy her seat. She did not move and was arrested for violating an Alabama law, wherein black people should relinquish their seat to white people when the bus is full.
4) Supreme Court banned the segregation on public transportation. The Alabama law is unconstitutional.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1) Montgomery City, Alabama
2) Black people formed the Montgomery Improvement Association and was led by Martin Luther King Jr. vs. Montgomery Bus.
3) Sparked by what happened to Rosa Parks, the MIA boycotted the Montgomery Bus Company calling for the removal of the segregation. The boycott lasted for 381 days.
4) Segregation on Montgomery Bus system ended
