![]() The Montgomery bus boycott, which came one year after the Supreme Court’s landmark declaration that separate schools for blacks and whites were “inherently unequal,” marked the start of the modern civil rights movement. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.” ![]() “At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this,” Mrs. (AP Photo/Montgomery County (Ala.) Sheriff's office) Montgomery County (Ala.) Sheriff / MONTGOMERY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT ![]() Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. ** FILE ** A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956, is shown Friday, July 23, 2004, in Montgomery, Ala. Martin Luther King Jr., who later earned the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. ![]() Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organized by a then little-known Baptist minister, the Rev. ![]()
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