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1956 - Birmingham Blacks Begin Mass Defiance of Jim Crow Bus Laws

Following the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, launched a campaign of mass resistance against segregated bus seating. This grassroots movement marked a bold stand against Jim Crow laws and laid the groundwork for more organized civil rights actions in the city, which would become a major battleground in the struggle for racial justice.

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