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When, on Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American, refused to move to the back of the bus as required by law for blacks, she sparked a 381-day bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., that led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation. |
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Parks never planned her protest, but it was the type of nonviolent act that civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference advocated. More about Parks and the civil rights movement can be found in the "Today in History" Dec 1 entry. By going to the Today in History Archive page and selecting Dec. 1 you can read the Parks story. What happened on any other day in history is also available at Today in History. |
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