 The ten years that followed saw great strides for African-American civil rights movement, as nonviolent demonstrations won thousands of supporters to the cause. Memorable landmarks in the struggle included the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, sparked by the refusal of Alabama resident Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger, and the I Have a Dream speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a rally of hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C. in 1963.