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Which began that Civil Rights Movement. She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to James Blake, a white man who demanded she move from her seat on the bus so he could sit there. He threatened to have her arrested and she didn't back down.
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Rosa Parks' arrest after the disagreement with James Blake on the Bus, sparked the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Using her only phone call in jail Park's called Reverned Nixon, president of the NAACP; a meeting was scheduled for later that night.
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Voters and representatives in Virginia came to conclusion of paying private schools to keep the segregated.
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In Montgomery, Alabama, 90 blacks were arrested for leading a bus boycott.
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Social and athletic events that were integrated were banned in Louisiana.
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In Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated by James Earl Ray. This act of violence lead black to cause riots all across to US.
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Laws ending segregation were passed in the Supreme Court
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Only a short time after segregated sports, school and resturants; the leader of our country is an African American man.
