November 13, 1956 the Supreme Court affirmed the ruling in Browder v. Gayle that the bus segregation laws in Montgomery Alabama were unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment.
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The US Supreme Court declared segregation on intrastate buses unconstitutional in Browder v. Gayle, 352 US 903 (1956). This ruling ended the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott lead by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Alabama’s segregation laws were unconstitutional.
On November 13, 1956 the US Supreme Court rules that segregated busing was nnconstitutional.
On November 13, 1956 the US Supreme Court rules that segregated busing was nnconstitutional.
There were quite a few US Supreme Court cases outlawing segregation. The two people are most familiar with are Brown v. Board of Education, (1954), which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, and Browder v. Gayle,(1956), which declared segregation on buses unconstitutional, and ended the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott.Unfortunately, African-Americans did not gain civil rights protection as the result of a single case, but through a long, continuing battle in the courts and legislature.For more information, see Related Questions, below.