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Rosa Parks for Kids: How the Montgomery Bus Boycott Began

Episode 33 10:59

In this episode

The true story of Rosa Parks for kids: how she refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, and how 381 days of peaceful protest changed the law.

• What the unfair bus rules were in 1955
• How 50,000 leaflets printed overnight started the boycott
• How a 26-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. came to lead it
• Quiz questions to answer along the way

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