Modern Era · North America · Politics
1955
Rosa Parks refuses to move
December 1, 1955
On a Montgomery bus, a forty-two-year-old seamstress and NAACP secretary refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested. A young preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. led the bus boycott that followed. Three hundred and eighty-one days of walking later, segregated buses in Montgomery were gone.
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Also in 1955 (4 other events on record)
- Salk polio vaccine approved · North America · Science
- Bandung Conference · Southeast Asia · Politics
- Warsaw Pact founded · Europe · Politics
- Disneyland opens · North America · Culture
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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