<P> The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery , Alabama . It was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement . 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 that segregated buses were unconstitutional . Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the boycott , including Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy . </P>
<P> The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery , Alabama . It was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement . 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 that segregated buses were unconstitutional . Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the boycott , including Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy . </P>
when did the montgomery bus boycott take place
when did the montgomery bus boycott take place
on the public transit system of Montgomery , Alabama
on the public transit system of Montgomery , Alabama