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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Effect on the Government

Local Government Pressure

The Montgomery city government lost a massive amount of tax money because the bus company nearly went bankrupt without the black passengers

Federal Intervention

The boycott forced the national government and the Supreme Court to step in end segregation rather than leaving it to individual states