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Rosa Parks refuses to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery,
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December 1

Rosa Parks Refuses to Move: Civil Rights Movement Ignites

Rosa Parks refuses to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, triggering her arrest and igniting the thirty-eight-day Montgomery Bus Boycott. This act of defiance forces Black residents to organize a mass transit strike that dismantles segregation on city buses and launches Martin Luther King Jr. into national leadership.

December 1, 1955

71 years ago

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