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    The main gigantic direct activity in the social equality development came in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Under SCLC authority, the dark group boycotted the city's transport system,which obliged them to ride at the back of the transports. After numerous months of boycotting, the U.S Incomparable court proclaimed that isolation on open transports was illegal, and the blacklist was conveyed to an end. This was an extremely noteworthy occasion for the social liberties development. It got the consideration

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    She ended up being arrested and taking the case all the way up to the u.s. supreme court in a fight for her rights. I think this event overall created a positive impact on free society generally starting the civil rights movement launching the Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott lead by Parks. Another prime example is Muhammad Ali's refusal to be drafted into the war. Ali didn't hide or flee when the draft came, he simply stood there and remarking "just take me to jail". As a result in this

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    It was February 1st, 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama. Montgomery was one of the most segregated towns back then. Jacob Jones a 26 year old black man was going to a restaurant to get lunch. Knowing that the restaurant was most likely not going to serve him because of his skin color. When he got there the waitress said to him, “you won’t be served here.” Then the waitress went back to talk to the manager. The manager came out from the back and said very angrily to Jacob, “You aren’t allowed service get

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    On Tuesday night, an estimated 1,400 people marched the streets of Boston in memory of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson on August 9th, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. The peaceful gathering was one of many that took place across the nation to protest a St. Louis grand jury’s decision to not indict Officer Wilson. The protest, called “Turn Up For Mike Brown,” began at the Boston Police Station in Dudley Square at 7:00 pm. It was organized by the

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. The law said that black people had to sit in the back of the bus while the the white people sat in the front. Bus drivers often referred to black people on the bus as nigger, black cow, or black ape. Blacks had to pay in the front of the bus and they had to get off to go threw the side door to sit in the back. Dr. Martin Luther King jr., was born on January 15,1929 but died April 4, 1968

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    1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, and died October 24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. She is an African American civil rights activist, who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. With this being done, it led to a Montgomery bus boycott, which is recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. civil rights movement. A statue of Rosa Parks sitting on the Montgomery bus, is at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. In 1943, she became a member of the Montgomery chapter of the

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    person because she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and began the American Civil Rights Movement.(give more detail on why she was asked to move) Rosa Parks lost her job because she stood up for her rights. In the next 50 years, Rosa Parks became a symbol of the strength and respect in the struggle to end segregation, in the United States of America. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. Rosa Parks was the first of two children

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    of the freedom movement”. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in tuskegee, Alabama

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    boycott.She was arrested in montgomery,Alabama on December 1,1955.Then a man named Martin Luther King jr. finally ended the bus boycott in montgomery Alabama.Rosa Parks was released from jail on march 11,2003 she was so happy that segregation had ended when she was released from jail. She enjoyed having not having to do nothing that the white people told her to do and that she was free to seat anywhere on the bus. Rosa Parks was born on February 4,1913 in tuskegee Alabama. She is a African American

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    Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. At the age of two she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. At the age of 11 she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United States. The school's philosophy of self-worth was consistent with Leona McCauley's advice to "take advantage of the opportunities, no matter

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