Editing Montgomery bus boycott (section)

===Victory===
[[File:Montgomery Improvement Association, flyer on bus desegregation, c. 1956 (NYPL).jpg|thumb|upright=.8|Montgomery Improvement Association poster announcing desegrated seating on buses ([[New York Public Library]])]]
Pressure increased across the country. The related civil suit was heard in federal district court and, on June 5, 1956, the court ruled in ''[[Browder v. Gayle]]'' (1956) that Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional.<ref>{{cite web |title=Browder v. Gayle, 142 F. Supp. 707 (M.D. Ala. 1956) |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/142/707/2263463/ |website=Justia US law |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref> As the state appealed the decision, the boycott continued. The case moved on to the [[United States Supreme Court]]. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gayle v. Browder |url=https://www.oyez.org/cases/1956/342 |website=Oyez |access-date=June 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Browder v. Gayle, 352 U.S. 903 |url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/browder-v-gayle-352-us-903 |website=[[Stanford University]] |date=April 24, 2017 |access-date=January 18, 2021}}</ref>

The bus boycott officially ended on December 20, 1956, after 382<ref>{{cite book|title=Once We Walked: A Calendar Commemorating the 382 Days of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-56|year=2005|publisher=NewSouth Books|location=Montgomery|pages=31}}</ref> days. The Montgomery bus boycott resounded far beyond the desegregation of public buses. It stimulated activism and participation from the South in the national '''Civil Rights Movement''' and gave King national attention as a rising leader.<ref name="381 Days">{{cite web|title=381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story |url=http://www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/381/main.htm |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |website=sites.si.edu |access-date=March 31, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316172049/http://www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/381/main.htm |archive-date=March 16, 2011}}</ref><ref>Wright, H. R: ''The Birth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott'', page 123. Charro Book Co., Inc., 1991. {{ISBN|0-9629468-0-X}}</ref>