A bus boycott in this state in 1955 helped launch the civil rights movement
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interesting ... On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a 
bus in Montgomery, AL and sparked the American Civil Rights movement of the 
.... regardless of race, equal rights and equal protection under state and federal 
laws.