When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus for white passengers in 1955, she was arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation ordinances. Her action sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, led by the Montgomery Improvement Association and Martin Luther King, Jr., that eventually succeeded in achieving desegregation of the city buses. The boycott also helped give rise to the American civil rights movement.
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