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Later in the year, Montgomery police charged seven [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansmen]] with the bombings, but all of the defendants were acquitted. About the same time, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled against Martin Luther King's appeal of his "illegal boycott" conviction.<ref>{{cite book |first=Taylor |last=Branch |authorlink=Taylor Branch |title=[[Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963]] |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=1988 |page=202}}</ref> Rosa Parks left Montgomery due to death threats and employment blacklisting.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanne-theoharis/rosa-parks-100th-birthday_b_2614678.html |first=Jeanne |last=Theoharis |title=10 Things You Don't Know About Rosa Parks |work=Huffington Post |date=February 4, 2013}}</ref> According to [[Charles Silberman]], "by 1963, most Negroes in Montgomery had returned to the old custom of riding in the back of the bus."<ref>{{cite book |first=Charles E. |last=Silberman |title=Crisis in Black and White |publisher=Random House |year=1964 |pages=141–2}}</ref>
[[The National Memorial for Peace and Justice]] contains, among other things, a sculpture "dedicated to the women who sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott", by [[Dana King]], to help illustrate the civil rights period.<ref name=inside>{{cite news|url=https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2018/04/whats-inside-montgomerys-national-peace-museum-and-slave-memorial-opening-april-26/|title=What's inside Montgomery’s national peace and slave memorial museum opening April 26|first=Barnett|last=Wright|accessdate=April 21, 2018|date=April 19, 2018|newspaper=[[Birmingham Times]]}}</ref> The memorial opened in downtown [[Montgomery, Alabama]] on April 26, 2018.<ref name=EJI>[http://eji.org/national-lynching-memorial The Memorial for Peace and Justice]</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/lynching-memorial-alabama.html|title=A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.|author=Campbell Robertson|date=25 Apr 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|language=en}}</ref>
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