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Question 8 • United States History

A direct result of Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955 was

Answer
A
the founding of the NAACP.
B
the Greensboro sit-in.
C
the March on Washington.
D
the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Explanation

Rosa Parks’s arrest in December 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott. African Americans in Montgomery organized a long-term boycott of the city’s buses to protest segregation. The NAACP was founded decades earlier, while the March on Washington and the Greensboro sit-in happened later.

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