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She refused to give up her seat to a white male on the bus so she was later arrested for not doing so.
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They were the organization that organized the Montgomery bus boycott. They were founded by black ministers and community leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., E. D. Nixon, and Ralph Abernathy.
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Montgomery Improvement Association held a mass meeting that evening at Holt Street Baptist Church where the MIA voted to continue the boycott.
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13 month mass protest to try and desegregate public buses.
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During the Montgomery bus boycott his home was bombed while his wife Coretta was home. Luckily no one was injured.
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A bomb explodes in the yard of Nixon, the MIA treasurer.
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A federal district court ruled in Browder v. Gayle that bus segregation was unconstitutional.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. (n.d.-b). https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/montgomery-bus-boycott