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|Goal: End segregation policies| |Goal: End segregation policies|
|Result: Supreme Court ruled bus segregation laws as unconstitutional| |Result: Supreme Court ruled bus segregation laws as unconstitutional|
## How did it start: ## Topics:
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 [How did it start?](howdiditstart.md)
[Key figures and leadership](keyfiguresandleadership.md)
## Key figures and leadership:
While the boycotts started with Rosa Parks, there were a number of other people involved as well.
1. Martin Luther King: MLK was a 26 year old minister who led the Montgomery Improvement Association.
2. Jo Ann Robinson: She was the president of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), She printed 35,000 flyers to announce the boycott.
3. E.D. Nixon: A ported who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail and saw an opportunity to stop the jim crow laws.