US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott
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The Rise and Fall of Bus Resistors
The history of resisting segregation in the American transport system stretches back much further than 1955. In Montgomery itself, there was a stream of black riders who had resisted bus segregation before Rosa Parks. That accumulation is crucial to why people are at a breaking point with Rosa Parks. I think you don't get people to boycott Rosa Parks if Claudette Colvin doesn't do what she does.
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