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The women's political system scheduled to meet with the mayor to make changes to the bus system in Montgomery.
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Claudette Colvin was arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white women on the bus.
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Rosa Parks was also arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man.
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The Women's political council did a one day boycott to not ride the Montgomery busses.
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The boycott was successful with about 90 percent of African Americans joining the bus boycott, this day Martin Luther King Jr. was named the president of Montgomery improvement association.
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The MIA starts to have a carpool system for the people who are participating in the boycott to make a difference. The buses were losing a lot of money with African Americans not riding them.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was seen as the main man responsible for the boycott and he had to either pay a fine of 500 dollars or 386 days in jail.
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The federal district court rules that the bus segregation is unconstitutional and decides to make a change.
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The Supreme Court orders the segregation on city buses are not permitted and is sent to Montgomery.
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The Montgomery City Hall ends the bus desegregated and the MIA boycott ends.