It put an end to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began nearly a year before when Rosa Parks, who was Black and sitting near the front of a bus, was ordered by the bus driver to move to a seat in the back. She refused.
The iconic black-and-white photo of Rosa Parks (right) sitting near the front of a Montgomery, Alabama bus - after the driver ordered her to get up and move to the back because of the color of her skin.
December 1, 1955
This began the Montgomery Bus Boycott that led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that racist segregation of buses violated the Constitution.
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On this day in 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s racist segregation of buses was illegal.
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