Mongomery Bus Boycott DBQ

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The Mongomery Bus Boycott, which took place on December 5, 1956 and lasted until December 20, 1956. What this exactly was is when African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The most prominant name of this time that made the boycott what it is today is Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man while on a Montgomery bus. Thus, resulting in her getting arrested and fined. After the fact, the U.S. Supreme Court in the end ordered Montgomery to merge its bus system. In the wake of this action, a affluent leader of the American civil rights movement emerged, that man is named Martin Luther King Jr.
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