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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus. This sparked the civil rights movement, Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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there was a group of 9 African American students enrolled in Little Rock High School. They were the first students that went to a public not segregated high school. Their enrollment sparked the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.