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| In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying a segregation law in Montgomery, Alabama, that required her to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. Her action helped to stimulate a boycott. For over a year, blacks refused to use the city’s bus system. The boycott received national attention and forced city officials to repeal the discriminatory law. | ||||||
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| African American History; United States (History); Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Parks, Rosa Louise; Civil Rights Movement in the United States | ||||||
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