How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?

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Montgomery bus boycott Activist Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956.

The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for 381 days. This mass protest was triggered by the arrest of Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. The boycott led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1956 that declared segregated public transit in Montgomery unconstitutional. This event brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to national prominence as a leader of the American civil rights movement.123