Montgomery bus boycott
1955–1956 · Event
Year-long boycott sparked by Rosa Parks; opening battle of the modern civil rights movement.
On these timelines: Master, USA
Around 1955
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)