Montgomery bus boycott Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Victory=== [[File:381 days 01.jpg|thumb|[[Smithsonian Institution]] traveling exhibition<ref name="381 Days" /> "381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott" at the [[Washington State History Museum]]]] Pressure increased across the country. The related civil suit was heard in federal district court and, on June 5, 1956, the court ruled in ''[[Browder v. Gayle]]'' (1956) that Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional.<ref>{{cite web |title=Browder v. Gayle, 142 F. Supp. 707 (M.D. Ala. 1956) |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/142/707/2263463/ |website=Justia US law |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref> As the state appealed the decision, the boycott continued. The case moved on to the [[United States Supreme Court]]. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gayle v. Browder |url=https://www.oyez.org/cases/1956/342 |website=Oyez |access-date=June 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Browder v. Gayle, 352 U.S. 903 |url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/browder-v-gayle-352-us-903 |website=[[Stanford University]] |date=April 24, 2017 |access-date=January 18, 2021}}</ref> The bus boycott officially ended on December 20, 1956, after 382<ref>{{cite book|title=Once We Walked: A Calendar Commemorating the 382 Days of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-56|year=2005|publisher=NewSouth Books|location=Montgomery|pages=31}}</ref> days. The Montgomery bus boycott resounded far beyond the desegregation of public buses. It stimulated activism and participation from the South in the national '''Civil Rights Movement''' and gave King national attention as a rising leader.<ref name="381 Days">{{cite web|title=381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story |url=http://www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/381/main.htm |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |website=sites.si.edu |access-date=March 31, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316172049/http://www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/381/main.htm |archive-date=March 16, 2011}}</ref><ref>Wright, H. R: ''The Birth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott'', page 123. Charro Book Co., Inc., 1991. {{ISBN|0-9629468-0-X}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page