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On this day December 01, 1955

Rosa Parks arrested in Montgomery

Rosa Parks arrested in Montgomery

Rosa Parks, NAACP secretary and trained civil rights organizer, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Her arrest triggered the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott that launched the modern civil rights movement.

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