13h 49min, dec 1, 1955 y - Rosa Parks
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In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park’s historic act of civil disobedience.Added to timeline:
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13h 49min, dec 1, 1955 y
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~ 70 years ago