Rosa Parks sparked the event. She was ordered to sit in the back of the bus, but she refused and sat in the front. She was arrested and after that African-Americans refused to take busses.
Rosa Parks, when she refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man.
Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on December 1, 1955. Her arrest led to a year-long boycott of the Montgomery bus system, which concluded with a Supreme Court ruling against bus segregation. This event was crucial in the Civil Rights Movement.
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