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Rosa Parks refuses to leave the bus seat sitting to a white person

69
years ago

01 December 1955,

Rosa Parks refused to give up the sitting bus seat to a white person. According to the law, white people had priority in these seats. That's why he was arrested. This action marked the beginning of the boycott of Montgomery buses against racial segregation.

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