1955–1956
Segregation / resistanceBook sources
Montgomery bus boycott and retaliation
Alabama; Black bus riders and organizers
Rosa Parks’s arrest helped trigger a sustained boycott of segregated buses. Authorities prosecuted organizers while segregationists used threats and bombings; litigation and organizing ended the city’s bus segregation.
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Context / qualification
Parks refused to surrender her seat under the segregated system; do not repeat the transcript’s simplified claim that she simply sat in a whites-only section.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, The Twentieth Century: A People’s History, H00 at 00:27:20 (approximate; supplied recording)
- Howard Zinn, The Twentieth Century: A People’s History, H00 at 00:28:11 (approximate; supplied recording)