What started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted 381 days.
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Who refused to give up her bus seat before Rosa Parks?
Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat.