of public accommodation. In 1955 King, who had just received his Ph.D. degree, was asked to lead a bus boycott in Montgomery. The city's black leaders had organized the boycott to protest enforced racial segregation in public transportation after the arrest of Rosa Parks, a black woman who had refused to give her seat to a white passenger. In the course of the 381-day action King was arrested and jailed, his home was bombed, and many threats were made against his life. The boycott ended in 1956 with a mandate from the Supreme Court outlawing all segregated public transportation in the city and King's words after this were always marked with an abhorrence for
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