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Did Martin Luther King Jr lead the Montgomery bus boycott during the Civil Rights Movement?
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January 27, 2011 6:23PM
Yes. The boycott was inspired by Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing
to give up her bus seat to for a white man on December 1,
1955.
The original organizers were Jo Ann Robinson, an English instructor
at Alabama State College and President of Montgomery's Women's
Political Council, and E. D. Nixon, President of the Montgomery
chapter of the NAACP.
On December 4, they called a meeting of community leaders to
discuss holding a one-day boycott of the Montgomery City Lines,
Inc., bus company. During the meeting, the group formed a new
alliance, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), to which
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was elected Chairman and
President. Dr. King subsequently became the leader of the civil
rights action that lasted 381 days, resulting in a US Supreme Court
ruling (Browder v. Gayle, (1956)) denouncing segregation as
unconstitutional.
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