. "The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955\u2014when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person\u2014to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v."@en . . .