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may 17, 1954 - Brown vs Board of Education

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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give on her seat on a Montgomery City bus. This event sparked a year long boycott of the city buses by the black citizens of Montgomery. The boycott was successful of ending the segregation of city buses, and helped promote Martin Luther King Jr as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

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may 17, 1954
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~ 71 years ago

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