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Date	December 5, 1955 - December 20, 1956
Location	Alabama • Montgomery • United States

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Rosa Parks had once paid the fare and then been refused service by this bus driver before.
Montgomery's African-American cab drivers charged only 10 cent fares for African-American riders during the boycott.
Even after the buses integrated, Montgomery's bus stops were still segregated.

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Women’s Political Council African Americans American civil rights movement civil rights bus National Association for the Advancement of Colored People racial segregation

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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