2025-12-01 - 70 years ago: Rosa Parks and the Mont­gomery bus boycott

On 1 December 1955, the African-American Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, after she refused to vacate her seat on a bus reserved for white people. Her arrest and conviction triggered a bus boycott that was initially planned for one day, but was eventually to last 381 days. The protest, which was organised by Martin Luther King, became one of the key moments in the civil rights movement: On 13 November 1956, the Supreme Court in Washington declared racial segregation on public transport unconstitutional.