One woman's refusal to move kept a city's buses empty for 381 days

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955, local civil rights organizers used her arrest to launch a citywide boycott. Tens of thousands of Black residents walked, carpooled or boycotted the buses for over a year until the Supreme Court ruled segregated seating unconstitutional.

— Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story — 1958