Montgomery bus boycott
1955–1956 · Event
Year-long boycott sparked by Rosa Parks; opening battle of the modern civil rights movement.
On these timelines: The Civil Rights Movement, Master, USA
More from The Civil Rights Movement
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat (1955)
- Selma to Montgomery marches (1965)
- The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (1963)
- Birmingham campaign (1963)
- King writes the Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
- Freedom Summer (1964)
- The murder of Medgar Evers (1963)
Around 1955
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Korean War (1950)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)