This was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement that took place in Montgomery, Alabama from December 1, 1955, to December 20, 1956. It was sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks, a black woman, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus.
The boycott, organized by Martin Luther King Jr., saw Black residents of Montgomery refuse to ride the city's buses for over a year. This created enormous economic hardship for the bus company and eventually led to the Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation on buses was unconstitutional.
While the boycott was primarily focused on ending bus segregation, it also represented a broader challenge to Jim Crow laws and was a major turning point in the fight for civil rights in the United States.