On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man. This act sparked the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr., challenging racial segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. significantly won with his nonviolent civil rights movement. Rosa Parks passed away on October 24, 2005, and shortly after, the U.S. Senate honored her by allowing her body to lie in state at the Capitol.
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