A courageous Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, and a young Martin Luther King Jr. became a hero and leader of the civil rights movement by steering a black boycott of public transportation in Montgomery, Ala. But behind the scenes, an aggressive, veteran lawyer for the NAACP, Thurgood Marshall, helped hone the boycott’s objective into a lawsuit that brought victory in the US Supreme Court in 1956.
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