Montgomery Bus Boycott
Alabama transit protest
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 1955–1956 protest in Montgomery, Alabama, where Black residents refused to ride city buses after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white passenger.
The boycott lasted 381 days and ended when the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
It launched Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence and became a landmark of the civil rights movement.
- Rosa ParksCivil rights icon
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- civil rights movementOrganized effort against discrimination
- segregationForced separation by group
- AlabamaDeep South state
1955 · bus · Martin Luther King Jr. · protest · peaceful protest · Jim Crow · Jim Crow laws · NAACP · freedom · walking · tired feet · carpool · mass transit · resistance · sit · front seat · arrest · dignity
- Southern HistoryDeep South, Antebellum, Old South, Dixie, Confederate
- Black HistoryMartin Luther King Jr., MLK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
- MLKMLK Day, I Have a Dream, March on Washington, Coretta Scott King, Nobel Peace Prize
Montgomery Bus Boycottsit-in
Protest by remaining seated
march · Freedom Rides · accommodation · armed resistance · riot
Montgomery Bus Boycottgoing along to get along
Conforming to maintain relationships
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