Montgomery Bus Boycott (dec 5, 1955 – dec 20, 1956)
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1. Civil rights protest to fight the segregation of public transportation
2. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat. The NAACP officially started the protest, and MLK Jr became a leader for it.
3. Montgomery, Alabama
4. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
5. A federal court ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court upheld that. The Montgomery buses were integrated.
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