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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.
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Montgomery Bus Boycott Ends
The Montgomery Bus Boycott ended after 381 days when the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
Rosa Parks Born
Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Rosa Parks Dies
Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," died in Detroit at age 92.
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.
Claudette Colvin Born
Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks, was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A political and social protest against racial segregation on public buses.