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  1. www.britannica.com › event › Montgomery-bus-boycottMontgomery bus boycott | Summary & Martin Luther King, Jr ...

    Sep 10, 2024 · Key People: Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks. Montgomery bus boycott, mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, by civil rights activists and their supporters that led to a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional. The 381-day bus boycott also brought the ...

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Montgomery_bus_boycottMontgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia

    Before the bus boycott, Jim Crow laws mandated the racial segregation of the Montgomery Bus Line. As a result of this segregation, African Americans were not hired as drivers, were forced to ride in the back of the bus, and were frequently ordered to surrender their seats to white people even though black passengers made up 75% of the bus system's riders. [2]

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  4. www.history.com › montgomery-bus-boycottMontgomery Bus Boycott ‑ Facts, Significance & Rosa Parks ...

    • Rosa Parks' Bus. In 1955, African Americans were still required by a Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinance to sit in the back half of city buses and to yield their seats to white riders if the front half of the bus, reserved for whites, was full.
    • Montgomery’s African Americans Mobilize. As news of the boycott spread, African American leaders across Montgomery (Alabama’s capital city) began lending their support.
    • Integration at Last. On June 5, 1956, a Montgomery federal court ruled that any law requiring racially segregated seating on buses violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
    • Bus Boycott Meets With Violence. Integration, however, met with significant resistance and even violence. While the buses themselves were integrated, Montgomery maintained segregated bus stops.

  5. www.khanacademy.org › a › the-montgomery-bus-boycottThe Montgomery Bus Boycott (article) | Khan Academy

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  6. www.historytools.org › stories › the-montgomery-busThe Montgomery Bus Boycott: A Historian‘s ... - History Tools

    May 27, 2024 · The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 was a defining moment in the American Civil Rights Movement. Triggered by the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, the 13-month protest campaign reshaped the struggle for racial equality and introduced the world to a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr.

  7. www.britannica.com › event › American-civil-rightsAmerican civil rights movement - Montgomery Bus Boycott ...

    Oct 10, 2024 · After boycott supporters chose Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., to head the newly established Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), King soon became the country’s most influential advocate of the concepts of nonviolent resistance forged by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Despite the bombing of King’s house and other acts of intimidation by segregationists, MIA leaders were able to ...

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  9. kinginstitute.stanford.edu › montgomery-bus-boycottMontgomery Bus Boycott - The Martin Luther King, Jr ...

    Montgomery Bus Boycott. December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956. 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 Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott ...