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===Public arena===

In 1955, [[Rosa Parks]] refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man in [[Montgomery, Alabama]]. This was not the first time this happened — for example Parks was inspired by 15 year old [[Claudette Colvin]] doing the same thing nine months earlier<ref>[https://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/29/the_other_rosa_parks_now_73 The Other Rosa Parks: Now 73, Claudette Colvin Was First to Refuse Giving Up Seat on Montgomery Bus]</ref> — but the Parks act of [[civil disobedience]] was chosen, symbolically, as an important catalyst in the growth of the [[Civil Rights Movement]]; activists built the [[Montgomery Bus Boycott]] around it, which lasted more than a year and resulted in desegregation of the privately run buses in the city. Civil rights protests and actions, together with legal challenges, resulted in a series of legislative and court decisions which contributed to undermining the Jim Crow system.<ref name="vcu">{{cite web|title=Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation|url=https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/jim-crow-laws-andracialand-racial-segregation/|website=VCU Libraries Social Welfare History Project|publisher=Virginia Commonwealth University|accessdate=27 January 2018}}</ref>

===End of legal segregation===

[[File:Lyndon Johnson signing Civil Rights Act, July 2, 1964.jpg|thumb|President Johnson signs the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]]]]