Rosa Park and Martin Luther King Jr. was involved in civil rights movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a mass protest and against segregation on the city of Montgomery, Alabama (“Montgomery bus boycott."). Civil rights activists and their supporters began the protest in 1955, and it lasted for 381 days. The boycott began shortly after seamstress Rosa Parks, a black passenger, refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955. African Americans had to sit back of the bus while the whites sit in the front. If the white section became full, African Americans had to give up their seats in the back. When Parks refused to give her seat to a white rider, she was taken to jail. She was later bailed out by a local