The Montgomery Bus Weekend and the Civil Rights Movement

While Parks is arrest sparked the boycott, sustaining it for 381 days was a whole community effort. Jean credits the boycott's organization as one of the key reasons for its success. In Baton Rouge, in 1953, there had been a similar boycott and the city changes and basically makes limited changes. And the boycott ends there. But because the city doesn't make limited changes and then doubles down in February and thinks, okay, we can arrest people and that will scare people. That's the moment where people step further and demand change to full desegregation of the bus.