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fifteen-year-old girl from Montgomery, is arrested for refusing to allow a white passenger to sit in her seat. Colvin is charged with assault, disorderly conduct, and violating segregation laws.
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President Nixon, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks met with the city's council to discuss the segregation on public buses. After the incident of Claudette Colvin.
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Mary Lousie Smith was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white man.
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Due to numerous events that either criminalized innocent victims or seriously caused harm to them due to the color of their skin ca a Boycott of Buses to arose until segregation on the buses was ended.
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Another African American was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white bus rider. She became essentially the straw to spark more conversations about ending segregation on the bus and moving to have laws sent to Supreme Court to do so.
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Women's Political Counsel launched an one day boycott of buses.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy launched Montogomery Improvement Association.
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The MIA sent a list of demands to Montgomery local officials demanding to end segregation.
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Numerous bomb threats and arrests were of the leaders and people involved with MIA.
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Bus segregation is ruled unconstitutional by the federal court. Supreme court struck down laws legalizing bus segregation.
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With the Supreme Court rulings reaching Montgomery city officials, it caused them to no longer be allowed to segregate public buses. Causing the Montogomery Boycott to end.