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This event was significant in the fight for civil rights as its results were tremendously impactful and its reach was far. Though the boycotts started in Montgomery Alabama, they inspired actions elsewhere in the South. Along with other civil rights heroes such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks became a significant figure in the civil rights movement. More than anything, this action demonstrated the power of on-the-ground activism and the importance of large numbers of people within a community taking a stand -- something that continues to inspire activists today.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was an organized protest in which activists rejected the use of the bus system due to its practices of segregation, requiring Black people to sit at the back of buses and give up their seats for white people.
Rosa Parks is known as a key figure in the movement, though she was not the first figure to face consequences for not giving up their seats. Following her arrest in 1955, after she refused to give up her seat for a white man, the Montgomery Bus Boycotts started. Mass amounts of local Black Americans participated in the boycott, which was initially supposed to last one day but was extended indefinitely following its success. Finally, in 1956, the boycott resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring bus segregation illegal in Montgomery.