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Bookmark or Share- The Montgomery Bus Boycott - Pieces of HistoryAfrican-American citizens made up a full three-quarters of regular bus riders, causing the boycott to have a strong economic impact on the public transportation system and on the city of Montgomery as a whole. The boycott was proving to be a successful means of protest.
- Montgomery Bus Boycott ‑ Facts, Significance & Rosa Parks - HISTORYThe Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
- Montgomery Bus Boycott | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...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 that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott - U.S. National Park ServiceThe Montgomery bus boycott began the modern Civil Rights Movement and established Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader. King instituted the practice of massive non-violent civil disobedience to injustice, which he learned from studying Gandhi.
- Montgomery Bus Boycott - Encyclopedia of AlabamaBeginning 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 success led to a November 1956 Supreme Court decision overturning segregated transportation that was legalized by the 1896 Plessy v.
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