Rosa Parks - Bus Boycott (dec 5, 1955 – dec 20, 1956)
Description:
Rosa Parks (1913—2005) was an African American woman who got arrested when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus on 1 Dec 1955.The Monday after her actions (Dec 5 1955), the local Black community organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by a young Dr. Martin Luther King jr. The boycott ended after a year, when the US Supreme Court declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were unconstitutional.
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Date:
dec 5, 1955
dec 20, 1956
~ 1 years