Which civil rights event began in December 1955, months after Till's murder?
Montgomery bus boycott
March on Washington
Freedom Rides
Selma to Montgomery marches
Answer
The Montgomery bus boycott began in December 1955, just months after Emmett Till's murder. It lasted for more than a year and eventually led to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregated buses were unconstitutional.
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