The Montgomery Bus BoycottAmerica took its first steps towards racial integration in 1954, when the Supreme Court declared segregated schools unconstitutional, but the American attitude towards of the black brothers was anything but friendly. Blacks still found themselves banned from swimming pools and hotels, separation between the races was still an accepted practice. For years the civil rights movement slowly but surely rose to the surface of the racial volcano, until the revolution erupted on December 1, 1955. intimidated and threatened on this bus route Just the other day one of the good citizens of our community, Miss Rosa Parks, was arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Miss Rosa Parks was arrested and taken to prison from the bus only because she refused to give up her seat. We are currently in the midst of a protest by the black citizens of Montgomery who represent approximately 44% of the population. At least 90 percent of regular black bus riders remain off the buses and we intend to continue until something is done” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Discussing the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Parks started something very tired after a long day at work. Rosa sat in a row reserved for blacks, when all the front white rows were full the bus driver asked Rosa and three others to move so a white man could take a seat. At that time whites and blacks were not allowed to occupy the same row. Parks refused and was arrested. Five days later, on December 5, Rosa was fined ten dollars in police court for violating city bus segregation laws. It was shortly after the report... in the middle of the paper... the victory achieved by the Montgomery bus boycott as an insignificant achievement compared to the achievement that would be achieved later in the civil rights movement but, as Rerta Wright wrote, helped launch a decades-long national fight for freedom in justice without the Montgomery bus boycott, who knows if civil rights for all would ever have come." We are faced primarily with a moral question... It's as old as the Scriptures and it's like as clear as the American Constitution.... It has been one hundred years since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs... are still not entirely free from the bonds of injustice... of this Nation.. will not be completely free all its citizens will not be free.... Now is the time for this Nation to fulfill its promise." Dallek, Robert (2003). An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963, pp. 604-606.