What was the effect or accomplishments of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, intended to oppose the city’s policy of racial segregation on its public transit system. The ensuing struggle lasted from December 5, 1955, to December 21, 1956, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses unconstitutional. The protest was triggered by the arrest of African American seamstress Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955. She was charged for violating racial segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give her seat on a bus to a white man. The full story says that she was sitting in the fifth row (the first row that blacks could occupy), along with 4 other blacks. Soon, all of the first four rows were filled up, and a white man walked on. Since blacks and whites couldn’t be in the same row, the man wanted all of the blacks to move. The other four blacks complied, but Rosa refused R
