; Whereas the United Defense League decided that nobody was going to ride the bus the next morning, prompting Black residents across Baton Rouge to carpool with each other; Whereas this action cost bus companies $1,600 a day with no Black passengers due to the boycott and ceased bus operations across the city; Whereas the boycott’s success reached far beyond the Baton Rouge city limits and gave Black people across the Nation inspiration and hope, setting the tone for the civil rights movement; Whereas the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott represents the first large-scale, extended effort by Black people to successfully challenge discrimination and segregation; and Whereas, in 1956, 3 years after the Baton Rouge bus strike, the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation on buses: Now, therefore, be it