Gotta be in it to win it. I never come lame type killing in the game. I get busy. It's only right that I address this. Gotta be in it to win it. I never come lame type killing in the game. Hot music. I never kissed that ass of the masses. I'm the black molasses. Thick and I lasted.
The Montgomery bus boycott began on December 5, 1955, four days after Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man.
Despite the relative failure of the 1958 Birmingham bus boycott, a year later, Shuttlesworth and the ACMHR achieved a partial victory when a judge ruled that while the bus company still had the right to tell blacks to move to the back of the bus, blacks who refused were not doing anything illegal.