Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56):
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 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, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader. The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to successfully challenge racial segregation and served as an example for other southern campaigns that followed. The spark to the flame that was the Montgomery Bus Boycott was the arrest of Rosa Parks for sitting in the "white section" of the bus, or the front. She demonstrated the strength and power that blacks have because she was unwilling to move just because she is black. She took the arrest and this event moved the rest of the blacks to support her and fight for their civil rights against segregation.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 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, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader. The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to successfully challenge racial segregation and served as an example for other southern campaigns that followed. The spark to the flame that was the Montgomery Bus Boycott was the arrest of Rosa Parks for sitting in the "white section" of the bus, or the front. She demonstrated the strength and power that blacks have because she was unwilling to move just because she is black. She took the arrest and this event moved the rest of the blacks to support her and fight for their civil rights against segregation.