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Rosa Parks’ Arrest Sparks 381-Day Montgomery Boycott
Rosa Parks sat down and changed America on December 1, 1955. The seamstress said no when told to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
Her arrest lit a fire. Black leaders quickly printed 35,000 flyers calling for a one-day bus boycott that turned into 381 days of protest. A young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up to lead.
Through carpools, court cases, and even bomb threats, they kept going until the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation illegal. Today, the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District in Georgia brings this pivotal moment in civil rights history to life.
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A Seamstress Sparked a Revolution
Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old seamstress and NAACP secretary, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Cleveland Avenue bus on December 1, 1955…