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He brought the worlds attention to the unfair treatment of blacks and he also had a child, a girl.
In March 1955, a fifteen-year-old school girl, Claudette Colvin, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in compliance with the Jim Crow laws. King was on the committee from the Birmingham African-American community that looked into the case; Edgar Nixon and Clifford Durr decided to wait for a better case to pursue.[31] On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.[32] The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and planned by Nixon and led by King, soon followed.[33] The boycott lasted for 385 days,[34] and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed.[35] King was arrested during this campaign, which ended with a United States District Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses

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