Why did the Montgomery Improvement Association form during the protest?

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

The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was formed during the Montgomery bus boycott to support and sustain the protest against racial segregation on public buses. Following Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, local civil rights leaders decided to challenge segregation laws. The MIA, with Martin Luther King, Jr. as its president, organized the boycott and the legal challenge. The organization aimed to achieve desegregation of the city buses and became a pivotal force in the American civil rights movement.123