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What event set off the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s ?

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4 African americans sat at a lunch counter and the waiters wouldn't serve them at all so they sat there until the place closed. next day they bought 25 other students and the same thing happened
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Montgomery bus boycott was believed to trigger the Civil rights movement