Montgomery bus boycott
Alabama transit protest
The Montgomery bus boycott was a 1955–1956 protest against racial segregation on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
Sparked when Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white passenger, the boycott lasted over a year 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
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- MarchesFrontier boundary territories
- Supreme Court rulingsBinding interpretations from apex judiciary
- Brown v. Board of EducationLandmark desegregation decision
Little Rock Nine · Freedom Riders · Martin Luther King Jr. · Coretta Scott King · Negro spirituals · mass meeting
- 1950sEisenhower, poodle skirt, Elvis Presley, Rosa Parks, baby boom
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- Alabama HistoryBirmingham, Selma, Martin Luther King Jr., statehood, Selma march
- Peaceful Protestnonviolence, civil disobedience, peaceful protest, passive resistance, peaceful resistance
- protestsprotest, demonstration, protest march, demonstrations, rallies
Montgomery bus boycottrace riot
Violent intergroup ethnic conflict
armed resistance · marches · March on Washington · sit-ins · Freedom Rides
Montgomery bus boycottJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
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