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//Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956// On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white person and she said no. As a result of her saying no, the cops arrested her. Because of this incident, the black people that lived in Montgomery at the time started a one year boycott of the city buses. It took, "381 days of taking taxis, carpooling, and walking the hostile streets of Montgomery, African Americans eventually won their fight to desegregate seating on public buses" (Toonari). This boycott was a very dramatic response to the Rosa Parks bus incident, but it was what was needed to solve the problem of desegregation in the south. In 1956 it was official when the Supreme Court declared segregation on buses was considered unconstitutional.
 * 1950's South**

//By Bobby Williams//

Toonari. "Montgomery Bus Boycott." //Black History.// African Online. Web.