US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott
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The Brown vs. Board of Education Decision in 1954
In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Activists needed a test case to put to the courts; they decided on Rosa Parks' arrest as their example. The Montgomery bus boycott turned into a long-term campaign for desegregation. Over a year after the boycott begins, the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the boycott and Montgomery's buses will be desegregated by December 21 1956.
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