In what movement was the women who made her famous in the Montgomery Bus Boycott an activist?
the Civil Rights Movement
1956 Rose Bowl
The 1956 Rose Bowl game, played on January 2, 1956, was the 42nd Rose Bowl game.
 The Michigan State Spartans defeated the UCLA Bruins, 17–14.
 Michigan State halfback Walt Kowalczyk was named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game.
 The game was played on January 2, because New Year's Day was a Sunday.
 It featured two of the most racially integrated college football teams of the day with six African American players for the Bruins and seven for the Spartans.
 This stood in stark contrast to the 1956 Sugar Bowl, where there was controversy over whether Bobby Grier from Pitt should be allowed to play and whether Georgia Tech should even play at all due to Georgia governor Marvin Griffin's opposition to integration.
 Only one month previous, Rosa Parks made her famous protest in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
 The 1956 Rose Bowl has the highest TV rating of all college bowl games, watched by 41.1% of all people in the US with TV sets.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638
The Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638 is a historic apartment building in the Cleveland Court Apartment Complex in Montgomery, Alabama.
 It is significant to the history of the modern Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
 Unit 634 was home to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, her husband Raymond, and her mother, Leona McCauley, during the Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955 to 1956.
 The building was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 30, 1989 and the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 2001. Rosa Parks Museum
The Rosa Parks Museum is located at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama.
 It has information, exhibits, and some artifacts from 1955 when the Montgomery bus boycott happened.
 This museum got its name from civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who is known for refusing to give up her seat for a white person on a city bus. Georgia Gilmore
Georgia Teresa Gilmore (February 5, 1920 – March 3, 1990) was an African American woman from Montgomery, Alabama who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott through her fund-raising effort selling food at the boycott's mass meetings.
 Her grass-roots activism helped to sustain the long boycott and inspired similar groups to begin raising money. E. D. Nixon
Edgar Daniel Nixon (July 12, 1899 – February 25, 1987), known as E. D. Nixon, was an African-American civil rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery Bus Boycott there in 1955.
 The boycott highlighted the issues of segregation in the South, was upheld for more than a year by black residents, and nearly brought the city-owned bus system to bankruptcy.
 It ended in December 1956, after the United States Supreme Court ruled in the related case, "Browder v. Gayle" (1956), that the local and state laws were unconstitutional, and ordered the state to end bus segregation. Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
 The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, "Browder v. Gayle", took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
 Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. History of Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama, was incorporated in 1819, as a merger of two towns situated along the Alabama River.
 It became the state capital in 1846.
 In February 1861, Montgomery was selected as the first capital of the Confederate States of America, until the seat of government moved to Richmond, Virginia, in May of that year.
 During the mid-20th century, Montgomery was a primary site in the Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Selma to Montgomery marches. Women's Political Council
The Women's Political Council, founded in Montgomery, Alabama, was an organization that was part of the Civil Rights Movement that was formed to address the racial issues in the city.
 Members included Mary Fair Burks, Jo Ann Robinson, Irene West, Thelma Glass, and Uretta Adair.
 The WPC was the first group to officially call for a boycott of the bus system during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, beginning in December 1955.
 The group led efforts in the early 1950s to secure better treatment for Black bus passengers, and in December 1955 it initiated the thirteen month bus boycott.
 They helped organize communications to get it started, as well as to support it, including giving people rides who were boycotting the buses.
 The African Americans of Montgomery upheld the boycott for more than a year. Mary Louise Smith (civil rights activist)
Mary Louise Smith (later Mary Louise Smith Ware) (born 1937) is an African-American civil rights activist.
 She is notable for having been arrested in October 1955 at the age of 18 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on the segregated bus system.
 She is one of several women who were arrested for this offense prior to Rosa Parks that year.
 Parks was the figure around whom the Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized, starting December 5, 1955.