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The Montgomery bus boycott lasted 381 days
Black residents walked and shared cars until the city changed its seating rules After Rosa Parks was arrested in December 1955, Montgomery's Black community organised a boycott of the city buses that lasted more than a year. Car pools and long walks kept it going through court challenges and harassment. In November 1956 the Supreme Court upheld a ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional. It sits in Mondo's history collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The Montgomery bus boycott lasted 381 days: the short answers
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- Black residents walked and shared cars until the city changed its seating rules. The figure is taken from National Archives, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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