The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.

Who started the first boycott?

In December 1955 NAACP activist Rosa Parks's impromptu refusal to give up her seat to a white man on...… … first major success in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955–56, led by the Rev. Martin Luther...…

What was the first major boycott that King led?

The main mission of the boycott was to protest segregated seating on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. ATLANTA — Martin Luther King Jr.'s first major boycott was the Montgomery Bus Boycott.