On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist was sitting on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Blacks were required to give their seat up to a white person and sit in the back or stand if there were no seats available. When a white man told her to give up her seat she refused and was arrested by Montgomery police. When other blacks herd this news, they instituted bus boycott in Montgomery that started on December 5th, 1955. On December 13th, 1956, the United States Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation, and the Montgomery bus boycott end in victory on December 21st, 1956

Many protest were held against segregation. Most of them were nonviolent. Martin Luther K

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'"

"Brown vs. Board of Education" Britannica 1995, 2, 562

"Martin Luther King (collage)" Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia [on CD-ROM], 1998

Greensboro Sit-Ins [Online] Available http://www.greensboro.com/sitins/timeline.htm, December 15, 1999.

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