Montgomery Bus Boycott Outline

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest where African Americans refused to ride the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place December 5, 1955, through December 20, 1956. This boycott is now recognized as the first large-scale U.S demonstration against segregation. Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Parks was arrested at a time in American history when, under the Jim Crow laws, African Americans faced discrimination and segregation across the South. The Jim Crow laws in Montgomery at the time established bus seating where there was a section for blacks in the back of the