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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, AL. During this time period, it was required that any blacks riding public transit had to give up their seat to a white person, even if it was in the "black section" of the bus/subway.
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Once word got out of Rosa Parks' actions, nearly 40,000 black bus riders boycotted the public transit system until demand were met that the public transits would hold a first-come-first-serve seating basis.
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Montgomery federal court ruled it that any law of segregation went against the 14th amendment.
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The proposal of banning segregation laws went to the supreme court on this date, ruling it unanimous that it would be abolished.
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The bus lines became a first-come-first-serve seating basis and the boycott ended on this date.
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The bus boycott put Martin Luther King Jr. in the spotlight as he was nominated to lead the MIA during the boycott.