In 1955, Rosa Parks had had enough. She was riding on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, when the driver her to give up her seat to a White passenger. Parks, however, , and was arrested. She was ordered to pay $14 in fines because she broke the law which required African-Americans to their seats on buses to White Americans . African-Americans in Montgomery had also had enough. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the community together and a powerful boycott that lasted 381 days! A boycott is a form of in which a group refuses to buy the of the company or organization that is the subject of the protest. The boycott worked! Not only did the companies that the buses lose money, but the United States Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery’s bus laws were illegal. Just nine years later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed making segregation illegal throughout the United States.