Rosa Parks Bus Boycotts. Montgomery bus boycott, mass protest against the bus system of montgomery, alabama, by civil rights activists and their supporters that led to a 1956 u.s. The montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of montgomery, alabama.

After rosa parks left work at the montgomery fair department store on thursday, december 1, 1955, she boarded the cleveland avenue bus at court square to go home.

Rosa parks wanted a guaranteed seat on the bus for her ride home after working as a seamstress in a montgomery department store. An act of refusing to use, buy, or deal with a person, organization, or country as a form of protest. Household names when, enraged with the way black americans were treated. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the a major event in the history of american civil rights, the montgomery bus boycott stands as a testament to the power of organised civil disobedience in the. It's also the event that helped to make both rosa parks and martin luther king jr. This rosa parks bus boycott became a key strategic piece to turning the opinion of the public bus companies. The montgomery bus boycott ended when the supreme court ruled that the bus segregation laws in alabama were unconstitutional. Rosa parks wanted a guaranteed seat on the bus for her ride home after working as a seamstress in a montgomery department store. As a result of this segregation, african americans were forced to ride in. On december 1, 1955, rosa parks was tired of having to give up her bus seat and she said no to a white person. She was part of an organisation called the naacp (national association for the advancement of coloured people)rosa and her husband, raymond parks, were both involved in.