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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, and one of the leaders of the boycott, a young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr., emerged as a prominent leader of the American civil rights movement.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961
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In 1963, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was the largest Black church in Birmingham, Alabama, and served as a meeting place for civil rights activities. A white male was seen placing a box on the steps of the church that exploded, killing 4 young children.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., organized a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state's capital, Montgomery, to call for a federal voting rights law. Which turned deadly.