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When Rosa Parks refused on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 1955, to give up her bus seat so that a white man could sit, it is unlikely that she fully realized the forces she had set into motion and the controversy that would soon swirl around her.

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The Story of the Boycott
Click below to hear Rosa Parks, Virginia Durr, Fred Gray, ED Nixon and Joe Azbell tell the story of the Boycott in their own words. (10 mins)

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