Which major boycott followed Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat and helped lead to desegregation of Montgomery buses?

Which major boycott followed Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat and helped lead to desegregation of Montgomery buses?

• A. March on Washington
• B. Freedom Riders
• C. Montgomery Bus Boycott
• D. Sit-Ins

Answer: (C)

Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat became a powerful trigger for a sustained protest against segregated buses. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized by the local community, with leadership from the Montgomery Improvement Association and a young Martin Luther King Jr., and it used nonviolent resistance to press for change. African American riders stopped using the city buses for 381 days, creating economic pressure that made segregation untenable for the bus system. The boycott helped bring about a landmark legal victory, Browder v. Gayle, which ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional and paved the way for desegregation in Montgomery and beyond. The other actions listed—national marches, the Freedom Rides testing interstate bus desegregation, and sit-ins across various venues—were important civil rights efforts, but they are separate events and not the immediate action that led to desegregation of Montgomery buses.

Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat became a powerful trigger for a sustained protest against segregated buses. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized by the local community, with leadership from the Montgomery Improvement Association and a young Martin Luther King Jr., and it used nonviolent resistance to press for change. African American riders stopped using the city buses for 381 days, creating economic pressure that made segregation untenable for the bus system. The boycott helped bring about a landmark legal victory, Browder v. Gayle, which ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional and paved the way for desegregation in Montgomery and beyond.

The other actions listed—national marches, the Freedom Rides testing interstate bus desegregation, and sit-ins across various venues—were important civil rights efforts, but they are separate events and not the immediate action that led to desegregation of Montgomery buses.