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African Americans start to boycott city buses.
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Claudette Colvin was a 15 year old African American girl who was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person
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A well respected NAACP secretary, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her bus seat and was arrested
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, E.D Nixon, and Jo Ann Robinson of the Women's Political Council, formed the MIA to lead the boycott.
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Boycott faces major backlash with violent nature and dangerous situations, but the boycott still stood strong
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Federal court declares bus segregation unconstitutional, affirming the grassroots movements legal arguments
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U.S Supreme Court ends bus segregation