On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the colored section of a bus to a white passenger, an iconic symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Today (February 4th) would have been her 101st birthday.
Original B&W photo.
Read more about Rosa Parks, starting here.
[…] December 26th 1956, just six days after the official end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, sparked by Rosa Parks‘ refusal to move from her seat on a bus to make way for a white person, and her subsequent […]
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