Browder v. Gayle: Supreme Court Rules Bus Segregation Unconstitutional

On November 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court affirms in Browder v. Gayle that bus segregation in Montgomery is unconstitutional. The case is brought by Aurelia Browder, Claudette Colvin, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith — not Rosa Parks, whose case was handled differently. Claudette Colvin, 15, had refused to give up her seat nine months before Parks. The ruling formally ends the boycott with a Black victory, though bombings continue into January 1957.