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What did the Montgomery Bus Boycott teach civil rights activists in Montgomery and elsewhere?

One person could make a difference.

Segregation laws could be changed.

Nonviolent resistance could inspire a violent response.

Nonviolent resistance could succeed in ending segregation.

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Nonviolent resistance could succeed in ending segregation.

The 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott — sparked by Rosa Parks but sustained by mass, nonviolent protest, legal action (Browder v. Gayle), and effective organization (including Martin Luther King Jr.) — forced the city to desegregate its buses and showed activists that disciplined, nonviolent mass action could produce real, legal change.