Description: The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Crash Course Black American History #35, Montgomery Bus Boycott |American Freedom Stories | Biography, The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 | Black American Heroes, The Montgomery Bus Boycott
video (50786) headlines (21488) world news (21464) worldnews (20538) sign up and share your playlists (20515) videos and editable pages for news (20512) wn archive (20206) wn network (20195) montgomery bus boycott (2) montgomery bus boycott breaking news (1)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott , a seminal event in the U.S. 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 1, 1955—when 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 declar
In 1944 , while a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army , future athletic star Jackie Robinson took a similar stand in a confrontation with another Army officer in Fort Hood , Texas , by refusing to move to the back of a bus. Robinson was brought before a court-martial , which acquitted him.
For 382 days, almost the entire African-American population of Montgomery, Alabama , including leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, refused to ride on segregated buses, a turning point in the American civil rights movement. #Biography Subscribe for more Biography: http://aetv.us/2AsWMPH Delve deeper into Biography on our site: http://www.biography.com Follow Biography for more surprising stories from fascinating lives: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Biography Instagram - https://www.instagram