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Montgomery Bus Boycott
1st December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa Parks got on a segregated bus to go home after work.
She sat on the first row of 'coloured' seating.
The bus filled with white people and one white man was left standing.
The bus driver told Parks and three other black people to move. - The whole row had to move as white people couldn't sit next to black.
The others moved. Rosa Parks refused.
She was arrested by the police.
People refusing to move was common. After Parks was arrested, however, a boycott begun.
Boycott lasted 381 days and almost all of the black people of Montgomery took part. Boycott only ended when buses were desegregated.
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MIA
Montgomery Improvement Association was set up at a meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church on 5th December. Aims were to improve the lives of black people in Montgomery generally and to continue the bus boycott, pressing for the improvements demanded by the WPA.
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