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What did blacks hope to gain by boycotting the buses in Montgomery Alabama?

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They hoped to use economic pressure to end segregation on the buses.

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When were the Montgomery Alabama buses desegregated?
The Montgomery, Alabama, city buses were desegregated on December 20, 1956, as the result of a court order arising from the Supreme Court's decision in Browder v. Gayle, (1956).
Black who integrated Alabama buses?
Rosa Parks
How did the blacks on Montgomery refuse to ride the buses?
they said no to a white person to give up seat
Why was there a bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama and what was the result?
it was because she didn't want to give up her seat for a white man (the blacks had to sit in the back and the whites in front). So for that she was arrested.
What was the result of the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott?
In November 1956, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the MIA's case fordesegregation. The boycott ended on 20 December 1956, when the bus companies agreed to allow all bus travellers the same...