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What day did the Montgomery bus boycott begin?
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The Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott began Monday, December 5, 1955 and ended December 20, 1956, 381 days later.
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four days after Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give her bus
seat to a white man. Although the boycott was originally planned to
last only one day, the organizers of the boycott, led by Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., decided to extend it until the practice of public
transportation segregation was outlawed.
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college. Then, she became an English professor at Alabama State
college.
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first 10 rows were reserved for white people only) The bus driver
verbally attacked her and she ran off the bus.
In 1950 she became the president of the Women's Political
Council (WCP) where she focused on bus arrangements for blacks.
After Rosa Parks was arrested in 1950, she made flyers to
announce a day long bus boycott in Montgomery. On December 5, 1950
the bus boycott began. The boycott lasted for over a year instead
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Who organized the Montgomery bus boycott?

The Montgomery bus boycott began in response to Rosa
Parks' December 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to give her seat
to a white man.
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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What was the cause and effects of the Montgomery bus boycott?

The Montgomery bus boycott began in response to Rosa
Parks' December 1, 1955 arrest for refusing to give her seat to
a white man.
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 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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What is a short summary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest by the
African-Americans about the buses in the Montgomery area.
The buses had a policy that white people sat at the front and
African-Americans sat at the back. The African-Americans were angry
because they couldn't walk through the White's 'zone' and that they
had to pay at the front of the bus, get out of the bus and then get
back in through a rear door. Sometimes the bus driver would drive
away before they could get back in.
The start of it began when outrage occurred when Rosa Parks, an
African-American woman, was arrested for not giving up her seat for
a white man. (She was next to the window, so there was space).
African-American Leaders got together and said to the
African-American population to boycott (not use) the buses for a
day, but it was more of a success than they thought it would be.
The boycott lasted for 381 days (a bit more than a year), until the
US Supreme Court said segregation on buses is unconstitutional and
ordered a change.
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Who helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott with Martin Luther King Jr.?

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December 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to give her seat to a white
man.
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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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