Five days after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat the African-American community of Montgomery, Alabama launched their boycott of the city's bus system led by the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association, they committed themselves to these demands:
1.) Blacks would not ride the buses until polite treatment by bus drivers were guaranteed to them
2.) Segregation must be abolished on buses and a first come first served policy adapted and
3.) The employment of black bus drivers.
The bus boycott was immediately successful. Leaders had anticipated about 60% of blacks to participate in the movement, but at the end of day one it was predicted that there was nearly 100% cooperation. People had utilized other ways of transportation such as walking; using cabs, getting rides in private cars and some even rode mules to work.
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