print email comment close Montgomery Bus Boycott URL: http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_montgomery_bus_boycott_1955_1956/ Description: "Sparked by Rosa Parks' arrest on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was an eleven-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public bus segregation is unconstitutional." This brief essay discusses the boycott and the events surrounding the act. Includes a bibliography and links to related material. From the Martin Luther King Papers Project, Stanford University. Publisher: Martin Luther King Papers Project Extra Keywords civil rights movement civil disobedience African American black Library of Congress Subject Headings: African Americans -- Civil rights Civil rights movements -- United States -- History Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery LII Database Information: Record 19460 created by Jennifer English on 10/25/2005 Last modification on 10/14/2009 Published: 10/26/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19460