Transcription: The Civil Rights Movement gathered momentum in 1955 when Rosa Parks, a black woman, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident galvanized the black community and led to a successful year-long boycott of the Montgomery bus system. It also raised public awareness of the plight of African Americans. In 1957, President Eisenhower ordered in the Army to ensure that black students would be safe when they enrolled in a previously segregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Protests by blacks, in combination with increasing wh ...
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