Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression"
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