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At 19 years old she met and married Raymond Parks, who introduced her to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Rosa joined the Montgomery chapter of the N.A.A.C.P (Harris)
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Black passengers were to pay their fare at the front of the bus and then step off and board again through the back door, Parks walked through the only whites section and Blake (Bus Driver) grabbed the sleeve of her coat and tried to remove her physically she calmly exited the bus (Harris).
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Selected as a secretary in the N.A.A.C.CP Montgomery, Alabama, branch
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Claudette Colvin was arrested at 15 years old for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger, about 9 months before Parks was arrested.
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Mary Louise Smith, Susie McDonald, and Aurelia Browdwere arrested for violating segregation laws on the Montgomery buses (Harris).
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E.D. Nixon, president of the Montgomery chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. posted Parks bail money and even met her at the jailhouse when she was released to propose a opportunity to have serve as a plaintiff in a case to challenge the segregation laws and symbolize innocent black victims everywhere. Parks and her Husband thought of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (Harris)
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Parks failed to notice that James Blake was at the wheel of her bus home and took her seat in the back of the bus. The bus was crowded and the white section filled up, so Blake asked the four occupants in the first row of the "colored" section to stand so that a white man could have the row all to himself, 3 black passengers in Parks row stood up but Parks refused and was arrested (Harris).
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Rosa Parks and the N.A.A.C.P. spread the word about the bus boycott while Parks was found guilty of breaking Montgomery's segregation laws. The boycott was very successful, even Martin Luther King Jr. joined the boycott. (Harris)
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Parks and her husband were harassed and fired from their jobs while detractors bombed the homes of Dr. King and Nixon. Parks were arrested again for violating a state law against the organization of boycotts, and a photograph of her being fingerprinted at the police station ran on the front page of newspapers across the country. (Harris)
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Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional. Mary Louise Smith, Susie McDonald, Aurelia Browdwere, and Rosa Parks were plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle case the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional.
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Harris, Karen. “Home.” YouTube, https://historydaily.org/rosa-parks-stories-biography-facts-trivia/2. Accessed 21 April 2023.