# The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest in 1955, where black people boycotted the busses.

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|Start date: 5th December 1955|
|End date: 20th December 1956|
|Goal: End segregation policies|
|Result: Supreme Court ruled bus segregation laws as unconstitutional|

## How did it start:
The Montgomery Bus Boycotts were started by Rosa Parks, who was a seamstress and secretary for the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), when she was arrested after she refused to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery City. This started the bus boycotts

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