Montgomery bus boycott
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The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. Wikipedia
Dates: Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956
Location: Montgomery
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Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling ...
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The boycott culminated in the desegregation of public transportation in Alabama and throughout the country. Although the movement is best known for catapulting ...
Beginning in 1955, the 13-month nonviolent protest by the black citizens of Montgomery to desegregate the city's public bus system, Montgomery City Lines. Its ...
The Montgomery boycott became the model for human rights throughout the world.” When Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her ...
The boycott succeeds. African American men, women, and children stopped taking the bus, and instead carpooled or walked to their destinations. Most bus riders ...
Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect.
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