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How did the United States Supreme Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle resolve the Montgomery bus boycott?
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Montgomery bus boycott
Activist Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956.
The United States Supreme Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle declared Montgomery's laws requiring segregation on public buses unconstitutional. This landmark decision, handed down in 1956, directly resolved the Montgomery bus boycott by legally ending the discriminatory practice that the boycott aimed to dismantle. The boycott, which began after Rosa Parks's arrest on December 1, 1955, lasted 381 days and brought Martin Luther King, Jr., to national prominence as a leader of the American civil rights movement. The Supreme Court's ruling affirmed a lower court's decision, leading to the desegregation of Montgomery's buses and inspiring further civil rights activism across the South.12345