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This is an excerpt from a police report issued in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955.
We received a call...upon arrival the bus operator said he had a colored [person] sitting in the white section of the bus and would not
move back.
This police report details the arrest of which civil rights leader?
Medgar Evers
Fannie Lou Hamer
O James Meredith
Rosa Parks

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Final answer:

Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the end of bus segregation in Montgomery.


Explanation:

Rosa Parks was the civil rights leader arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery city bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott, organized by local leaders like Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and E. D. Nixon, lasted 381 days and led to the end of segregation on city buses. This event marked a significant moment in the civil rights movement in America.


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