Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to move to the back of a city bus for a white passenger. Parks' arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., which compelled Montgomery to desegregate its bus system.
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