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Rosa Park refused to get up from her seat on the bus for white people. -
a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
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Montgomery federal court ruled that any law requiring racially segregated seating on buses violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Four Black churches and the homes of prominent Black leaders were bombed.Montgomery police arrested seven bombers; all were members of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group. -
In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
The day honors King, a civil rights leader and minister, who was assassinated in 1968. The holiday was first observed in 1986 but was not celebrated in every state until 2000.