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The 1955 Montgomery bus boycott was a 381-day mass protest against racial segregation on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on December 1, 1955. Her arrest led to the boycott, coordinated by the Montgomery Improvement Association and led by Martin Luther King Jr. The boycott, which involved thousands of Black citizens, severely impacted the city's bus system and ended after the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation