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Bus Boycotts

Rosa Parks was for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated Montgomery bus. By the next morning, the council, led by JoAnn Robinson, had printed 52,000 fliers asking Montgomery blacks to stay off public buses on December 5, the day of the Park's trial. In December !955, 42,000 balck residents of montgomery began a year-long boycott of ciry buses to protest racially segregated seating. After 381 days of taking taxis, carpooling, and walking the hostile streets of Montgomery, African Americans everntually won their fight to desegregate seating on public buses, not only in Montgomery, but throughout the United States.