Page "Ralph Abernathy" Paragraph 10

On December 2, 1955, in response to the arrest of his NAACP co-worker Rosa Parks, Abernathy and his friend, Martin Luther King, organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and co-founded the American Civil Rights Movement.

The Montgomery Improvement Association led the successful 381 days transit boycott challenging “ Jim Crow ” segregation laws, and ended Alabama ’ s bus segregation.