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Elvis Presley
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was involved in this event. She refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger. The bus driver then called the authorities, Rosa was then arrested for not giving up her seat. The event took place on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. This event was important to history because the efforts to end segregation and Jim Crow Laws succeeded after a year of boycotting, the buses became integrated.
