Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, a 42-year-old seamstress refused to stand up. Her name was Rosa Parks. A white passenger wanted her seat. She said no.
This was not a whim. In the American South, the law still separated Black and white people everywhere. Her arrest set off a bus boycott that lasted 381 days. A young pastor, barely known at the time, found his voice in it: Martin Luther King Jr.
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- 2A South cut in two
- 3The refusal of December 1
- 4381 days without buses
- 5The Supreme Court decides
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary10 terms explained in a tap.
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