FAQ About Rosa Parks

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest campaign that commenced on December 5, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, and lasted for 381 days, until December 20, 1956. It was a seminal event in the US civil rights movement initiated by Rosa Parks' arrest. African Americans refused to ride city buses to protest segregated seating, leading to a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.