Rosa Parks Flashcards
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Q
What did Parks do?
A
She refused to give up her seat to a white man, she was than arrested for violating segregation laws
1
Q
When and where did the Parks incident occur?
A
December 1st 1955 in Montgomery Alabama
2
Q
Rosa Parks sparked a campaign to desegregate buses in Montgomery . Who helped to lead this campaign ?
A
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Q
What was the Montgomery bus boycott?
A
Majority of bus users in Montgomery were Black and most of them stopped using public transport to prove that there should be no segregation on buses.
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Q
When did the bus boycott campaign end ? And why?
A
November 1956 when the Supreme Court ruled that segregated buses were illegal.
