Montgomery Bus Boycott
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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.
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Participants
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People
- Ralph Abernathy
- Hugo Black
- James F. Blake
- Aurelia Browder
- Thomas Dean Brown
- Mary Fair Burks
- Johnnie Carr
- Claudette Colvin
- Clifford Durr
- Mildred Fahrni
- Georgia Gilmore
- Robert Graetz
- Fred Gray
- Grover C. Hall, Jr.
- Jake Peters
- Coretta Scott King
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Gregory McDonel (Youngones)
- Edgar Nixon
- Ellery Packard
- Rosa Parks
- Mother Pollard
- Jo Ann Robinson
- Bayard Rustin
- Nate Singleton
- Glenn Smiley
- Mary Louise Smith
- Kayla Michelle Smith
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Organizations
- Committee for Nonviolent Integration
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Georgia Gilmore
- Men of Montgomery
- Montgomery Improvement Association
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Women's Political Council
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See also
- 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott
- Boycott (2001 film)
- Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963
- Jim Crow laws
- The Long Walk Home (1990 film)
- Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
- Rosa Parks Act
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