== She didn't have to spend the night in jail, she was supposed to show up at a court in three days, from her arrest, She refused to pay the fine and would not believe that she broke the law. ==
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On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code. Edgar D. Nixon and Clifford Durrbailed Parks out of jail the evening of December 1.
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On the historical day of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was tired and on her way home from a long day at work. With a bag of groceries in her arms, she boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus. ... By around six o'clock, she was arrested and taken to jail. Since Parks was well respected by everyone in her community,
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I believe Rosa Parks was released from jail the same day she was arrested (someone came and paid her bail).
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One day, a black woman named Rosa Parks was riding home on a bus after a long day of work. ... Rosa Parks was arrested and put in jail. Many people heard what happened; some didn't think it was fair. So the black people in her town said, "We aren't going to ride the bus any more until the law is changed." For one year they...
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement....
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ROSA PARKS : THE INTERVIEW ... Well, I knew I was going to jail when the driver said he was going to have me arrested. I didn't feel good about going to jail, but I was willing to go to let it be known that under this type of segregation, black people had endured too much for too long.
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On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the black section of a bus when the driver asked her and her fellow seat mates to make room for a white passenger. She refused, was arrested and taken to jail. ... By reading her book, My Story, I learned that Rosa Parks had been a long-time black civil rights activist.
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Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," visited the Scholastic Web site from January to February 1997. ... That's the way I still feel. By standing up to something we still don't always affect change right away. Even when we are brave and have courage, change still doesn't come about for a long time.
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The Montgomery NAACP chapter decided to take up segregation on public transport - continuing a long tradition of African American direct action on buses. Rosa Parks had been ejected from a bus in 1943 when she refused to enter through the back door, and became known to drivers, who would sometimes refuse to let her on.
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