<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" id="mw3A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Civil rights movement">American Civil Rights Movement</a>: In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery,_Alabama" id="mw3Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Montgomery, Alabama">Montgomery, Alabama</a>, seamstress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks" id="mw3g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rosa Parks">Rosa Parks</a> refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation" id="mw3w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Racial segregation">racial segregation</a> laws, an incident which leads to that city's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott" id="mw4A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Montgomery bus boycott">bus boycott</a>.