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Photograph shows Rosa Parks seated on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, with a white man seated behind her. The photo was taken at the request of news reporters who asked her to pose on a bus on the day that the bus boycott ended. Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions The diagram below shows where Rosa Parks sat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955. At the time, the first ten seats on Montgomery buses were reserved for white passengers only. Parks was sitting in the eleventh row. On a cold December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks quietly incited a revolution — by just sitting down. She was tired after spending the day at work as a department store seamstress. She stepped onto the bus for the ride home and sat in the fifth row — the first row of the "Colored Section." Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested that day for violating a city law requiring racial segregation of public buses. On the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama, the front 10 seats were permanently reserved for white passengers. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white person, she was sitting in the first row of the middle section. [9] Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the back. [10] Figure 1: (left) Rosa Parks’ mug shot from Montgomery City Jail, Montgomery, 1955.(right) Recreation of Ms. Parks sitting on a Montgomery bus, staged and taken on December 21, 1956, the day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregated buses illegal. On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement. Parks boarded the bus that December evening and took a seat in the middle section. She was not sitting in the white section, as many later claimed, but in the middle section where black people were allowed to sit but could be asked to move on the whim of the bus driver. Man sitting behind Rosa Parks in famous bus photo is identified as United Press International reporter covering event, not some angry Alabama segregationist as has long been supposed; Catherine 5. Rosa Parks was the first black woman to exercise civil disobedience on a Montgomery bus. Nearly nine months before Rosa Parks’s famous arrest, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested on a Montgomery bus for refusing to yield her seat to a white passenger. She refused to move, began yelling about her constitutional rights, and had to be Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 26, 1956. Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images. Most of us know Rosa Parks as the African American woman who quietly, but firmly, refused to give up her bus seat to a white person Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. That small act of Sparking a Social Transformation. It’s one of the most famous moments in modern American civil rights history: On the chilly evening of December 1, 1955, at a bus stop on a busy street in the capital of Alabama, a 42-year-old seamstress boarded a segregated city bus to return home after a long day of work, taking a seat near the middle, just behind the front “white” section. At the front of a bus, where black people had never ridden before, is Rosa Parks, face turned to the window to her left, seemingly lost in thought as she rides through Montgomery, Ala. This black and white photograph depicts civil rights activist Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956. The image shows Parks sitting near the front of the bus, in a section designated for "colored" passengers, while white passengers are seated behind her. Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. The actual bus on which Rosa Parks sat was made available for the public to board and sit in the seat that Rosa Parks refused to give up. [ 153 ] On February 4, 2,000 birthday wishes gathered from people throughout the United States were transformed into 200 graphics messages at a celebration held on her 100th Birthday at the Davis Theater for On a cold December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks quietly incited a revolution — by just sitting down. She was tired after spending the day at work as a department store seamstress. She stepped onto the bus for the ride home and sat in the fifth row — the first row of the "Colored Section." Parks is photographed sitting at the front of a bus for Look magazine. Photo: Getty Images August 1957: Unable to find work in Montgomery and still facing threats for her role in the bus boycott
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