bus boycott
Refusing public transportation
A bus boycott is an organized refusal to use public bus transportation as a form of political protest.
The term is most associated with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955–56, when Black residents refused to ride city buses for over a year to protest segregated seating, helping launch the American civil rights movement.
The tactic has been used elsewhere to challenge discriminatory policies or fare increases.
- MontgomeryAlabama's seat of government
- empty seatsUnoccupied places to sit
- Rosa ParksCivil rights icon
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- civil rights movementOrganized effort against discrimination
segregation · Jim Crow laws · protest · resistance · MLK · freedom · equality · Jim Crow · NAACP · nonviolent · activism · integration · discrimination · movement · solidarity · justice · Alabama · passengers
- activismactivists, activist, advocate, demonstrating, rallies
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- 1956Suez Crisis, Hungarian Revolution, My Fair Lady, Heartbreak Hotel, transatlantic cable
- Alabama HistoryMontgomery, Birmingham, Selma, Martin Luther King Jr., statehood
- boycottstrade embargo, oil embargo, arms embargo, blacklist, divestment
- Southern HistoryDeep South, Antebellum, Old South, Dixie, Confederate
bus boycottsit-in
Protest by remaining seated
march · freedom ride · demonstration · rally · street protest
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