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On December 1,1955,Parks took an empty seat on a public bus.It’s an act that doesn’t seem special at all today.But in 1955,laws in some states required separate seating for blacks and whites in restaurants,on buses and in other public spaces.Parks refused to move when the driver asked her to give her seat to a white man.She sat quietly while the driver called the police.“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired,but that isn’t true,”Parks said.“The only tired I was,was tired of giving in.” Parks was taken to a police station,but her act of bravery set off a series of events that changed the United States.In 1956,the US Supreme Court2 decided that African Americans could not be forced to sit only in certain areas on buses.And in 1964,the Civil Rights Act stopped racial3 discrimination4 in all public places by making it illegal.