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Rosa Parks Refused To Give Up Seat in Montgomery Bus in 1955
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Dec 2, 20212:16Now PlayingOn this day in 1955, Rosa Parks boarded an Alabama bus and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger.
She was part of a community of local activists who were already organizing to take on segregated buses.
Parks worked with activist Jo Ann Robinson and civil rights attorney E.D. Nixon to organize the Montgomery Improvement Association to coordinate the efforts around a transit boycott.
Martin Luther King was elected president of this organization, and A. Philip Randolph served as the vice president.
With almost 50,000 Black Montgomery residents participating, the boycott would last over a year until the Supreme Court outlawed bus segregation in the city.
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