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Rosa Parks' Refusal to give up her Seat
When Rosa Parks was asked to move back on the bus for in order for a white person to sit in her spot, she refused to give up her seat. She was later arrested by Montgomery local police because she didn't give up her seat. -
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African American Bus Boycott Montgomery, AL
After Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white person. African American protesters stop using bus transportation in Montgomery. Their goal was to remove segregation in transportation systems. The civil rights group in Alabama was lead by MLK. African Americans made up 755 of the population of people who rode buses. -
Montgomery Bus Stops Integrated
After 381 days, the Montgomery federal court declared any segregated bus stops a violation of the 14th amendment. -
Resistance against bus integration
Almost immediately after bus segregation was declared illegal, 4 African-American churches and the homes of prominent black leaders. -
KKK Members Caught
The Montgomery police arrested seven bombers; all of them were members of the Ku Klux Klan. This ultimately brought an end to resistance against bus integration in Alabama. -
African-Americans sit-in segregated restaurant in Greensboro, NC
In early 1960, four African-American college students sat in a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. A diner that at the time, outlawed service to blacks. -
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Nashville Sit-Ins
Twelve days after the North Carolina restaurant sit-ins, African-American students began their lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, TN. -
Violent response to Nashville sit-ins
14 days after the official start of sit-ins in Nashville, a group of white people violently attacked 81 protesters. Of the people involved in the incident, all 81 African-American protesters were arrested while the white attackers faced no penalties. -
Lunch counters in Nashville are integrated
In the early summer of 1960, the mayor of Nashville, TN declared segregated restaurants in the city illegal. Making Nashville the first city in the south to have integrated restaurants.
