<P> Later in the year, Montgomery police charged seven Klansmen with the bombings, but all of the defendants were acquitted . About the same time, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled against Martin Luther King's appeal of his "illegal boycott" conviction . Rosa Parks left Montgomery due to death threats and employment blacklisting . According to Charles Silberman, "by 1963, most Negroes in Montgomery had returned to the old custom of riding in the back of the bus ." </P> <P> The National Memorial for Peace and Justice contains, among other things, a sculpture "dedicated to the women who sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott", by Dana King, to help illustrate the civil rights period . The memorial opened in downtown Montgomery, Alabama on April 26, 2018 . </P> <Ul> <Li> Ralph Abernathy </Li> <Li> Hugo Black </Li> <Li> James F. Blake </Li> <Li> Aurelia Browder </Li> <Li> Mary Fair Burks </Li> <Li> Johnnie Carr </Li> <Li> Claudette Colvin </Li> <Li> Clifford Durr </Li> <Li> Mildred Fahrni </Li> <Li> Georgia Gilmore </Li> <Li> Robert Graetz </Li> <Li> Fred Gray </Li> <Li> Grover C. Hall, Jr . </Li> <Li> Coretta Scott King </Li> <Li> Martin Luther King Jr . </Li> <Li> Theodora Lacey </Li> <Li> Edgar Nixon </Li> <Li> Rosa Parks </Li> <Li> Mother Pollard </Li> <Li> Jo Ann Robinson </Li> <Li> Bayard Rustin </Li> <Li> Nate Singleton </Li> <Li> Glenn Smiley </Li> <Li> Mary Louise Smith </Li> </Ul> <Li> James F. Blake </Li>

Which civil rights leader led the montgomery bus boycott