Turnin Rust Inventory- 1955 Chevy School Bus | Turnin Rust

#OTD in 1955 – sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks four days earlier – the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott began. It was a 13-month mass protest of racial segregation, the first of its scale in the U.S., coordinated by the Montgomery Improvement Association under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. Black leaders organized carpools to sustain the effort, and the city’s Black taxi drivers charged the same price as bus fare for Black riders. The boycott ended on Dec. 21, 1956, and the buses w

The 1953 Boycott That Inspired Rosa Parks Before Montgomery, before Rosa Parks became a household name, Reverend T.J. Jemison led 7,000 Black residents in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to orchestrate the first large-scale bus boycott in the segregated South. In June 1953, after the city revoked licenses of 40 Black-owned bus companies and raised fares by 50%, the African American community—who made up 80% of riders—turned their backs on city buses. For six days, they walked, carpooled, and showed the D