19555 December 1955 – 20 December 1956 · Montgomery

Montgomery bus boycott

The Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, on the site of her 1955 arrest — Photo: Michael Barera. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, Montgomery's Black residents stayed off the city buses for 381 days, organising car pools and walking to work. The protest made a young pastor, Martin Luther King Jr., its leader, and ended after the Supreme Court upheld a ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional.

Civil Rights & Human Rights
Montgomery & Selma, United States

Sites

Site 1: Rosa Parks MuseumMuseum at the bus stop where Parks was arrested.Map ↗
Site 2: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist ChurchKing's church, where boycott leaders met.Map ↗
Site 3: Dexter Parsonage MuseumKing's home, bombed in January 1956.Map ↗