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Rosa Parks honored with Congressional Gold Medal Montgomery, Alabama - Honoring the exact location where Mrs. Rosa Parks defied segregation and refused to give up her seat and go to the back of the bus where African Americans had always been required to sit in the past.
Inscription on marker
ROSA PARKS MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT "At this bus stop on this date December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to boarding whites. This brought about her arrest, conviction and fine. The Boycott began December 5, the day of Parks' trial as a protest by African-Americans for unequal treatment they received on the bus line. Refusing to ride the buses they maintained the Boycott until the U.S. Supreme Court ordered integration of public transportation one year later. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the Boycott, the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement."
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