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The Harlem Neighborhood Block Association
January 22, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Montgomery Bus Boycott

“Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery. The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to successfully challenge racial segregation and served as an example for other southern campaigns that followed. In Stride Toward Freedom, King’s 1958 memoir of the boycott, he declared the real meaning of the Montgomery bus boycott to be the power of a growing self-respect to animate the struggle for civil rights.”

“Activist New York” | Explore the drama of social activism in New York City from the 17th century right up to the present.

*Free to adjacent zip codes (including 10037). NYS residents pay what they wish. Always free to 18 years old and under.

Museum of the City of New York | 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St. - HOURS: Mon-Fri 10-5 | Sat-Sun 10-6

In a town renowned for its in-your-face persona, New Yorkers have banded together on issues as diverse as civil rights, wages, sexual orientation, and religious freedom. Using artifacts, photographs, audio and visual presentations, as well as interactive components that seek to tell the story of activism in the five boroughs past and present, Activist New York presents the passions and conflicts that underlie the city's history of agitation.

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