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Yes the civil rights movement started in Montgomery, Alabama
In Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-1956, which successfully challenged racial segregation on public buses. He also organized peaceful protests and marches, including the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965, to advocate for voting rights for African Americans.
they boycotted the buses they refused to ride segregated buses
William T. Gay has written: 'Montgomery, Alabama' -- subject(s): African Americans
In 1955, African Americans were still required by a Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinance to sit in the back half of city buses and to yield their seats to white riders if the front half of the bus, reserved for whites, was full.
At 1955, the buses of Montgomery, Alabama, were segregated, which meant that whites sat in the front part of the bus and African Americans sat in the back.
Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1943. This led to a boycott of the buses in the city by African Americans.
The African-Americans that lived in Montgomery, Alabama staged a nonviolent protest in the form of a boycott of the Montgomery Bus System. As a result of this nonviolent protest (and the US Supreme Court decision Browder v. Gayle, (1956)), African-Americans were allowed to sit anywhere they wanted on a bus. This effort was a great victory for Dr. Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonviolent protest to change the norms of society that had existed in the South.
Montgomery,Alabama Montgomery,Alabama
It is the Capital of the US State of Alabama and a former Capital of the Confederate States of America.
Which boycott? The most famous civil rights boycott was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, in Montgomery, Alabama, but African-Americans in Atlanta and a number of other cities also held boycotts of public transportation after the US Supreme Court overturned Montgomery bus segregation statutes as unconstitutional in 1956.