In response to Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was launched on this day. That evening, over 5,000 people gathered at the Holt Street Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was elected president of the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)—marking his rise as a national civil rights leader.
The boycott, which lasted over a year, became a defining act of nonviolent resistance and led to a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
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