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Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks

-She was the woman that started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

-She refused to give up her seat to a white passenger.

-The whites were able to sit in the front and the blacks weren’t.

-She was arrested on Feb. 22,1956.

The Refusal

-The reason that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat was because she was tired.

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

-Blacks were not being treated equally on the local buses so they went on strike, and refused to ride the buses.

-And this caused the bus companies to lose a lot of money.

Source

Http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilright