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The Civil Rights Movement was a post-war error that marked a period of unprecedented energy against the second class citizenshipaccordingto many African Americans indifferent parts of the nation. There were different strategies to helpwiththe resistance to racial segregation and discrimination. Some of these were civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, and things like that. Some major things were the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, and sit-ins.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started in December of 1955, when Rosa Parks would not give up her seat to a white person. She got onto a city bus after a long day of work. She was a seamtres;she sat with three other blacks in the fifth row. It was the first row they could occupy. A couple of stops later, a white man was left standing. Well since both blacks and whites could not sit together they were told to move. All but Parks moved and for this she was arrested. E. D. Nixon heard that she wasarrested and went to the jail......

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