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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 bold action helped to stimulate protests against inequality. The blacks in the community organized a boycott of the bus system. The boycott, which was led by Martin Luther King, Jr., 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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