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December 1, 1955

Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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December 1, 1955

Rosa Parks Arrested

Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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December 20, 1956

Montgomery Bus Boycott Ends

The Montgomery Bus Boycott ended after 381 days when the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.

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February 4, 1913

Rosa Parks Born

Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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October 24, 2005

Rosa Parks Dies

Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," died in Detroit at age 92.

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March 2, 1955

Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Bus Seat

Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus nine months before Rosa Parks.

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September 5, 1939

Claudette Colvin Born

Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks, was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

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December 5, 1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

A political and social protest against racial segregation on public buses.

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