#OTD in 1955 – sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks four days earlier – the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott began. It was a 13-month mass protest of racial segregation, the first of its scale in the U.S., coordinated by the Montgomery Improvement Association under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. Black leaders organized carpools to sustain the effort, and the city’s Black taxi drivers charged the same price as bus fare for Black riders. The boycott ended on Dec. 21, 1956, and the buses w

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