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NAACP is formed
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Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat on a bus
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Aurelia Browder is arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus
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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus
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Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
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Martin Luther King Jr. is elected to president of the Montgomery Improvement Association
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Injuctions are obtained, and Martin Luther King Jr. is indicted or the bus boycott
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Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
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Martin Luther King Jr.s home is bombed
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is convicted and fined for his participation in the bus boycott
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Browder v. Gayle ruling find that bus segregation is unconstitutional