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Abeng Stories

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    Black and African American History
    • The Transatlantic Slave Trade
      (1480-1783)
    • Abolitionist Movement
      • Legal Slavery
      • Resilience and Resistance
      • After Emancipation
    • The Jim Crow Era
    • The Civil Rights Movement
      • The Montgomery Bus Boycott 
        (1955-1956)
      • The Freedom Riders (1961)
      • The March on Washington (1963)
      • The March from Selma to
        Montgomery (1965)
    • Post Civil Rights Era
      • The Black Lives Matter Movement
      • National Memorial for
        Peace and Justice
  • Music of the Movements
    • The Black National Anthem:
      Lift Every Voice and Sing
    • Music Wall
  • Artwork
    • Amanda Gorman
      • “The Hill We Climb” Poem
    • Jonathan Harris
      • Paintings by Jonathan Harris
    • Byron Brooks
      • “I Am” Poem

The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)

Black and white photo depicting two men in suits escorting a Black girl with school bag into a building

National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel (Memphis, Tennessee)

This was a civil rights protest where African Americans in Montgomery Alabama, refused to ride city buses. The boycott was sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks, and lasted a total of 13 months. It ended with the US Supreme court ruling that it is unconstitutional to have segregation on public buses.

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