How It Started

It all started in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person and was arrested. That night there was a large meeting and all the colored people decided to officially start protesting and their first plan of action was boycotting all of the buses in Montgomery. Martin Luther King Jr. was made leader of the protest. It's important because it was the first major protest that he lead. Its lasted for a little over a year and was very successful. It got all of the colored people taking action in a way that they would get noticed. Eventually racial segregation was ended on all Montgomery public buses.