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The Women's Political Counsel met with the Montgomery mayer W.A. Gayle to petition changes to segregation in the bus system.
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Claudette Colvin refuses to give her seat to a white passenger and is arrested. However she did not become the symbol for the boycott as King and others thought her not a sympathetic character due to her pregnancy.
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Mary Louise Smith was also arrested for refusing to give up her seat but also not the start of the official boycott.
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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger and this sparks the WPC to call for a one day boycott of the bus system.
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The one day boycott with a hoped for 60% participation reaches nearly 100% participation. The Montgomery Improvement Association is founded with Martin Luther King Jr. as its president and the boycott is extended.
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The Federal District Court rules that bus segregation is unconstitutional, a massive win for the boycott and makes it a success.
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The ruling is upheld but the MIA will only lift the boycott when the desegregation occurs, not just in the courts but in practice.
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The busses are desegregated and the MIA boycott ends.