Montgomery Bus Boycott
Introduction
On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Park's court hearing and lasted 381 days.
Bus Rosa Parks was on
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African- American Civil Rights Movement.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist, whom the United states congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement