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The Jim Crow laws were in place, meaning that the blacks had to go to different places than the whites, and the black only  places were usually lower-quality than the whites.

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Edwina and Marshall Johnson were arrested for refusing to give up their seats for whites. They were fined and sent back to New Jersey.

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Jo Ann Robinson was sitting in the whites section on the bus and was told to get up. She was imagining her vacation,so she did not answer or acknowledge that she had to move until the bus driver started yelling and threatening her.

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Jo Ann Robinson was elected president of the WPC (Women's Political Council).

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The U.S Supreme Court declared that segregation in U.S public schools was unconstitutional.

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Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white because she said it was her constitutional right to keep her seat.

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Colvin was found guilty, and E.D Nixon abandoned the Colvin case

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Mary Louise Smith was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white.

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Smith chose to plead guilty, and was fined 5 dollars. E.D Nixon felt that, again, it wasn't the case he wanted.

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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat up to a white man.

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E.D Nixon asked Rosa if she wanted to try to take her case to the U.S Supreme Court. Rosa agreed. Jo Ann Robinson and her staff issued letters on the mimeograph for a one day boycott.

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The boycott starts, and all buses have no black passengers. The taxi company helps out by lowering the fare to 10 cents. The MIA was formed, and MLK was elected president of the it. He said that the blacks would not use violence. The crowd said that the boycott would continue.

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The taxi company could not do their emergency discount, so MLK set up a carpool system. They ended up getting about 275 - 300 vehicles for it.

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Mayor Gayle and his city commissioners joined the White Citizens Council.

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The bus company announced that it was on the verge of going bankrupt. The blacks carpooling were arrested for dumb and made-up causes.

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MLK was arrested for going 30 MPH in a 25 MPH zone. (you can usually go 10 over without being arrested.)

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So many MLK supporters gathered outside of the jail, that King was released without bail.

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MLK got threat letters from the KKK (Klu Klux Klan). He got phone threats too. one man said, "Listen n*****, we've taken all we want from you. Before next week you'll be sorry you ever came to Montgomery."

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The King house was bombed, and nobody was injured. A mob of blacks gathered outside with weapons, but MLK persuaded them to use nonviolence.

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Someone poured acid over Jo Ann Robinson's car.

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The grand jury of 17 whites and 1 black to investigate racial unrest ruled 115 blacks for breaking a law for no boycotts "without just cause or legal excuse."

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All the boycotters were reporting themselves to the police.

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Fred Gray filed papers to challenge bus segregation, and Rosa Parks was found guilty at her appeal

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MLK was found guilty in participating in a "illegal" boycott.

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A three judge jury ruled 2-1 that bus segregation was illegal. The attorneys for Montgomery appealed to the Supreme Court.

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The Robert Graetz house was bombed and no one was injured. Mayor Gayle passed it off as a publicity stunt.

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The carpool was ruled illegal, but the U.S Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional.

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The black people held a celebration for the end of their 381 day boycott success.

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The ruling of the Supreme Court was finally delivered to Montgomery, and the buses were desegregated.

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MLK, Abernathy, and the Graetz homes were bombed. No one was hurt.

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A bomb was thrown into the church, and four teens were killed.

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Segregation was banned in the U.S.A.

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All people, regardless of race, gender, or color could vote without poll tests or taxes.

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While supporting a sanitation strike in Memphis MLK was shot in the back of the head by James Earl Ray.

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Rosa Parks died to natural causes.