Three-Fourths of the riders are Negroes, yet we are arrested, or have to stand over empty seats. If we do not do something to stop these arrests, they will continue. The next time it may be you, or your daughter, or mother. This woman's case will come up on Monday. We are, therefore, asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trail. Don't ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday. You can afford to stay out of school for one day if you have no other way except the by bus. You can also afford to stay out of town for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don't ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off all buses Monday. " .
Martin Luther King Jr and colleague Ralph Abernathy organized the Montgomery boycott on the public transportation. Their demands were that Black passengers should be treated with respect and courtesy, seating should be apportioned on a first-come-first-serve basis with white passengers sitting from front to back and black passengers from back to front. While also have the African American drivers to primarily serviced African American passengers. On Monday, December 5, 1955 the boycott went in effect. Martin Luther King Jr., minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church would have been happy with 60 percent cooperation of the protest would have been a success, but little did they know that 99 percent would cooperate in the protest of the Montgomery Bus public service. The once dormant and quiescent Negro community was now fully awake. The group that was appointed decided to call themselves the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and King was elected president. During their discussions the idea of ending the boycott with a one day success until E.D Nixon spoke these words "What's the matter with you people? Here you have been living off the sweat of those washerwoman all these years and you have done anything for them.
