What is Montgomery bus boycott?
[[file:Rosa Parks Bus.jpg|thumb|The bus where it all started.]] The '''Montgomery Bus Boycott''' was a major event in the [[Civil Rights Movement]]. It happened in [[Montgomery, Alabama]] where the city transportation were [[Racial segregation|segregated]]. [[Black people|Black]] passengers were required by [[law]] to ride in the back of the bus. On December 1, 1955 [[Rosa Parks]], an [[African American]] woman, refused to give her bus seat to a white person. She was [[arrest]]ed and sent to [[jail]] and was fined 14 dollars.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ducksters.com/history/civil_rights/montgomery_bus_boycott.php|title=Civil Rights for Kids: Montgomery Bus Boycott|website=www.ducksters.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-13}}</ref> In protest about 40,000<ref>{{cite web|title=Montgomery Bus Boycott|url=http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott|work=history.com/|publisher=A+E Networks|accessdate=26 April 2016|year=2010|quote=Approximately 40,000 African-American bus riders–the majority of the city’s black bus riders–boycotted the system [on December 5, 1955].}}</ref> black people [[boycott]]ed the Montgomery city buses, refusing to ride. The boycott lasted 381 days.<ref>Joyce A. Hanson, ''Rosa Parks: A Biography'' (Westport, CT: Greenwood; Brighton: Roundhouse, 2010.), p. xi</ref> On November 13, 1956, the [[United States Supreme Court]] issued its decision to desegregate the buses and implemented a first-come, first-served policy.<ref>{{Citation|title=Project C: Montgomery Bus Boycott {{!}} Project C {{!}} PBS|url=http://www.pbs.org/video/project-c-episode-6-montgomery-bus-boycott/|language=en-US|accessdate=2018-03-13}}</ref> In response the city of Montgomery passed a law allowing black passengers to sit anywhere on the buses. The boycott ended on December 20, 1956. Many important people in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott. This included [[Clergy|Reverend]] Dr [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] and [[Ralph Abernathy]].<ref>Cheryl Fisher Phibbs, ''The Montgomery Bus Boycott