Montgomery bus boycott

December 5, 1955 – December 20, 1956 · Montgomery, Alabama

Thirteen-month protest against bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, beginning 5 December 1955, the day after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing her seat to a white passenger. Led in part by a young Martin Luther King Jr., it became a foundational civil rights movement event, ending 20 December 1956 when the Supreme Court's Browder v. Gayle ruling struck down bus segregation.

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