1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins
After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, Black residents of Montgomery organized a 381-day boycott of the segregated city buses, a foundational campaign of the modern civil rights movement.
Montgomery, Alabama, AL
African American
Civil rights movement
Jim Crow
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After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, Black residents of Montgomery organized a 381-day boycott of the segregated city buses, a foundational campaign of the modern civil rights movement.