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Sometime (within 24 hours of Rosa Parks being arrested) leaders of the black community called a meeting, proposing a bus boycott. The leaders included Martin Luther King Jr., clergy men, small business owners, union workers, teachers, and postal workers. The bus boycott lasted 12-13 months.
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The biggest taxi cab company agree to participate. (Sometime after the meeting). Lowered their fare, so many people would use taxis instead of the bus to help the boycott.
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The newspapers were published with images of Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott leaders arrested.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man in Montgomery Alabama.
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Montgomery Police arrests Rosa Parks.
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The Boycott wouldn't have happened without the support of small businesses.