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Originally Posted by PKFFW
The civil rights movement in the USA is widely held to have started by black people choosing not to ride buses, not by any illegal act.
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Not exactly correct. The 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott started with an act of civil disobedience, an intentional violation of the then existing law. See the excerpt below:
"Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was sitting in the front-most row for black people. When a Caucasian man boarded the bus, the bus driver, James F. Blake, told everyone in her row to move back to create a new row for the whites. While all of the other colored people in her row complied, Rosa refused, and was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinance did not explicitly mandate segregation, but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats.
When found guilty on December 5,[5] Parks was fined $10 plus a court cost of $4, but she appealed. The boycott was triggered by her arrest. As a result, Rosa Parks is considered one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement."
from Wikipedia