On December 5, 1955, the Black community of Montgomery, Alabama launched a city-wide boycott of the bus system — four days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. The boycott was coordinated by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), led by a young Martin Luther King Jr.. Roughly 30,000–40,000 Black residents avoided buses, opting instead to walk, carpool, or use Black-owned taxis — applying economic pressure on the bus company. The boycott last
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#OnThisDay 1955: Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. Visit BBC In History for more on the 'no' that sparked the US civil rights movement. https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20231128-rosa-parks-the-one-moment-that-sparked-the-civil-rights-movement Clip taken from Man Alive: Deep South, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 May 1974. | BBC Archive
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#OTD in 1955 – sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks four days earlier – the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott began. It was a 13-month mass protest of racial segregation, the first of its scale in the U.S., coordinated by the Montgomery Improvement Association under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. Black leaders organized carpools to sustain the effort, and the city’s Black taxi drivers charged the same price as bus fare for Black riders. The boycott ended on Dec. 21, 1956, and the buses w
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