https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
Montgomery bus boycott, 1955
In March 1955, Claudette Colvin—a fifteen-year-old black schoolgirl in Montgomery—refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in violation of Jim Crow laws, local laws in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation. King was on the committee from the Birmingham African-American community that looked into the case; E. D. Nixon and Clifford Durr decided to wait for a better case to pursue because the incident involved a minor.[97]
Nine months later on December 1, 1955, a similar incident occurred when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus.[98]The two incidents led to the Montgomery bus boycott, which was urged and planned by Nixon and led by King.[99] The boycott lasted for 385 days,[100] and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed.[101] King was arrested during this campaign, which concluded with a United States District Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses.[102][1] King's role in the bus boycott transformed him into a national figure and the best-known spokesman of the civil rights movement.[103]
