Rosa Parks Movement In The 1950's

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It began in the 1950’s, in 1995, Rosa Parks, an elderly black women, refused give up her seat on a Alabama bus to a white man. Since she protested the norm of the society at the time, she castigated to jail. After Rosa Parks protest, African Americans no longer wanted to sit at the back of bus, nationally. This led to blacks boycotting the busing system in Alabama.

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