In 1955 this NAACP member was arrested & fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama
... She was 
arrested under a city ordinance requiring segregated buses and fined $10 ... At 
the time that she refused to give up her seat, only 31 African Americans in ... With 
support from the local NAACP, a boycott was organized to show support for Parks
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