Montgomery Bus Boycott
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. Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.
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Books/Sources
- Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson - Jo Ann Robinson
- The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow - Donnie Williams
Youtube
- Johnnie Carr and Fred Gray Speak about Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Racism, School Desegregation Laws and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States