In response to racial discrimination on public transportation, Black residents in Macon, Georgia, launched a bus boycott on February 11, 1962. The protest followed the arrest of a Black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Macon movement demonstrated the power of organized, nonviolent resistance in the struggle for civil rights.
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