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The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and
social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system
of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1,
1955, when Rosa
Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing
to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956, when a federal
ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a
United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery
laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.[1] Many
important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott,
including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.
social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system
of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1,
1955, when Rosa
Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing
to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956, when a federal
ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a
United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery
laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.[1] Many
important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott,
including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.