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一篇报纸文章报导阿拉巴马州蒙哥玛丽市在罗莎．帕克斯审判日时的公车抵制罢工情形
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公民权利领袖马丁．路德．金恩二世 (Martin
Luther King Jr.) 出生
1929年1月15日
西元1955年，一些公民权利积极份子要求在阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利市的教堂服务的年轻刚结婚的牧师金恩领导大家展开公车抵制行动，目的在于退出蒙哥玛利市所规定在交通工具上的种族隔离政策。这场抵制是因为一名叫做罗莎．帕克斯 (Rosa
Parks) 的妇女拒绝让位给一个白人乘客而遭到逮捕的事件所引起的。一年多之后，该城市最多的公车人口，也就是非裔美人，为了抗议帕克斯遭到逮捕，决定拒绝搭乘公车。最后，金恩博士与其他人所提出之废除种族隔离政策的要求得到支持，抵制发挥了效果。西元1956年12月，最高法院宣布公共交通工具上的种族隔离政策必须立即终止，而抵制行动也随之退出。
During that same year, 1955, civil rights activists asked King, the young, newly married pastor of a Montgomery, Alabama, church, to lead a bus boycott aimed at ending segregation (a separation of facilities by race) on public transportation in Montgomery. The boycott was initiated by the refusal of a woman named Rosa Parks to give up her bus seat to a white passenger; she was arrested. For more than a year, African Americans, a majority of the bus riders in the city, stayed off the bus in protest of Parks's arrest. Finally the boycott brought about the desegregation King and the protesters sought when, in December 1956, the Supreme Court banned segregation on public transportation, and the boycott ended.
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