Montgomery bus boycott Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Baton Rouge bus boycott=== {{Main|Baton Rouge bus boycott}} On February 25, 1953, the [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], city-parish council passed Ordinance 222 after the city saw protesting from African Americans when the council raised the city's bus fares.<ref name="LSU">{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/boycott/index.html |title=Baton Rouge Bus Boycott |author=Dr. Mary Price |author2=Louisiana State University |publisher=lsu.edu |date=December 1, 2013 |author2-link=Louisiana State University}}</ref> The ordinance abolished race-based reserved seating requirements and allowed the admission of African Americans in the front sections of city buses if there were no white passengers present, but it still required African Americans to enter from the rear rather than the front of the buses.<ref name="Swarthmore">{{cite web |url=http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/african-american-passengers-boycott-segregated-buses-baton-rouge-1953 |title=African American passengers boycott segregated buses in Baton Rouge, 1953 |author=Julio Alicea |author2=Swarthmore College |publisher=swarthmore.edu |date=December 9, 2010 |author2-link=Swarthmore College}}</ref> However, the ordinance was largely unenforced by the city bus drivers. The drivers later went on strike after city authorities refused to arrest Rev. [[T. J. Jemison]] for sitting in a front row.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oLjYbzkGWk8C&pg=PA66 |title=The Jim Crow Encyclopedia: Greenwood Milestones in African-American History |author=Nikki L. M. Brown, Barry M. Stentiford |isbn=978-0313341816 |page=66 |year=2008|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref> Four days after the strike began, [[Attorney General of Louisiana|Louisiana Attorney General]] and former [[Baton Rouge]] mayor [[Fred S. LeBlanc]] declared the ordinance unconstitutional under Louisiana state law.<ref name="Swarthmore"/> This led Rev. Jemison to organize what historians believe to be the first bus boycott of the civil rights movement.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1304163 |title=The First Civil Rights Bus Boycott |author=Debbie Elliott |author2=National Public Radio |publisher=NPR |date=June 19, 2003 |author2-link=National Public Radio}}</ref> The boycott ended after eight days when an agreement was reached to only retain the first two front and back rows as racially reserved seating.<ref name="LSU"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page