10h 46min, dec 1, 1955 y - Rosa Parks arrest
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On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This single act of nonviolent resistance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, an eleven-month struggle to desegregate the city's buses.
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10h 46min, dec 1, 1955 y
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