in the 1950s in the US everything was segregated between colored people and white people
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the bus driver told Rosa Parks to stand up to let a white man sit down
I want to sit at the front of the bus and there shouldn't be any segregation
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you are getting a 10$ fine and you are getting arrested. I am going to call the police right now!
once Rosa got arrested black people started to have meetings and wanted to start a bus boycott, letting no black people ride any buses so that the companies would loose money and have to stop segregation. one of the leaders were Martin Luther King jr.
the boycott lasted 381 days and then the US supreme court agreed that segregation on all buses should be banned.
Rosa was awarded the congressional gold medal and the presidential medal of freedom