Montgomery bus boycott
December 5, 1955 – December 20, 1956
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The boycott was a 13-month protest against racial segregation on the public buses of Montgomery, Alabama, beginning 5 December 1955, the day after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. Led in part by a young Martin Luther King Jr., it became a foundational event of the U.S. civil rights movement. It ended on 20 December 1956 when the Supreme Court's ruling in Browder v. Gayle declared bus segregation unconstitutional.
