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11h 8min, nov 1, 1955 y - Montgomery bus boycott

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In refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, activist Rosa Parks starts a 381-day bus boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr., in Montgomery, Ala. The boycott ends in victory on Dec. 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court rules that segregation on buses is illegal.

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11h 8min, nov 1, 1955 y
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