In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American woman refused to vacate a bus seat for a white male. ... This meant that there was a division of white and black people at restaurants, drink fountains, public toilets, hotels, buses and many other public facilities. ... Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen to lead the protest group in a boycott of the Montgomery city bus system. ... The buses were desegregated in December of that year and the boycott ended. ... Within eighteen months of its establishment 70 000 freedom riders had taken part in sit-ins across the country against segregated services. ...

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Rosa Parks On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white man. ... In response to Parks arrest, the Women's Political Council distributed fliers to boycott the bus line on the day of Park's trial. The African Americans of Montgomery won their rights on June 2, 1956, when a federal court ruled for the Montgomery Improvement Association and declared segregated bus service to be unconstitutional. ... (Internet) This how Henry Thoreau and Rosa Parks have a similar way o...

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On the way home on the bus from her job as a sales associate at a department store, it started with her getting on the bus at the wrong end. (Coloured people would pay at the front doors, then get off and come through the back doors of the bus.) ... Going down the route, the bus started to fill up. ... The bus driver called police and Rosa was arrested for violating Jim Crow practices. ... Later that day, a boycott to the Montgomery bus service started because many did not believe Rosa's ruling was right. ...

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