g sentences, identify the sentences as either simple, compound,
and-complex.
1. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man
on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, she was not trying to
start a revolution.
2. Parks simply wanted to go home after a hard day's work.
3. But others who were involved with the NAACP saw in Parks
refusal to move the potential to gain their own civil rights.
4. The Montgomery bus boycott was quickly organized.
5. Thousands of African Americans living in Montgomery,
including Martin Luther King, Jr., refused to use the city's
public transportation; they chose instead to walk, ride bikes,
or carpool.
6. Police would often pull the carpoolers over and arrest them.
7. King himself was arrested for driving ten miles over the
speed limit, and others were jailed for equally minor traffic
violations.
B. The city sued the carpoolers for running an illegal business
enterprise, but the protesters would not be deterred.
9. Finally, after over a year of a near total boycott, African
Americans won the right to sit wherever they wanted on
Montgomery's buses.
0. Rosa Parks and her fellow Alabamians had discovered the
ground that could be gained through nonviolent protest.
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