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I Don’t Move to the Back of the Bus? Rosa Parks brought together a unique blend of life experiences, a commitment to racial justice, and a flawless reputation to transform a single act of defiance into a defining moment for the modern American civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. For doing this, Parks was arrested and fined for breaking the laws of segregation. A soft-spoken seamstress with tired feet refused to move to the back of the bus to make room for a white man. Her spontaneous action and subsequent arrest sparked a yearlong boycott of the city’s buses that brought down Jim Crow in the cradle of the Confederacy. African-Americans had wilfully violated the segregation of public transport before Rosa Parks, even in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, where 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested nine months earlier for the same crime of refusing to give up her bus seat. The Montgomery bus boycott triggered a firestorm in the South. Across the region, blacks resisted "moving to the back of the bus." Similar actions flared up in other cities. The boycott put Martin Luther King Jr. in the national spotlight. He became the acknowledged leader of the nascent Civil Rights Movement. 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. For 382 days, almost the entire African American population of Montgomery, Alabama, including leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, refused to ride on segregated buses. Black people had to board the bus through the front door to pay the driver but then had to get off again and walk to the rear of the vehicle before getting back on. Rosa Parks, left, and Martin As the bus filled with passengers, the driver approached Rosa’s row and told everyone to move back to make space for white passengers. Three obliged. Rosa refused. “Well, I’m going to have you arrested,” the bus driver said. “You may do that,” Rosa replied calmly as she remained seated with her hands resting in her lap. Rosa Parks’ contributions to the civil rights movement . By the time Parks famously refused to give up a seat on a segregated bus in 1955, she was a well-known figure in the struggle for racial 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 When that section filled, the next row back was supposed to become part of the white section and any non-white person was supposed to move back. So one white man boards and three people move to the back. Rosa Parks did not. It could have been brushed over. But the charges filed caused the boycott. The bus system was going to start something anyway. The Library of Congress, which keeps comprehensive records of documents related to Rosa Parks, has a copy of Parks' vehicle registration and a receipt of sale for a two-door 1965 Ford dated April What If I Don’t Move to the Back of the Bus? Visit. Visit Overview; Plan Your Visit. Plan Your Visit Overview; Tickets & Hours Rosa Parks Lyrics: Uh-huh, uh-huh, baby, yeah, yeah / Cut it up, oh, oh, oh! uh-huh [Chorus: Big Boi] Ah ha, hush that fuss Everybody move to the back of the bus Do you wanna bump and slump What If I Don’t Move to the Back of the Bus? Visit. Visit Overview; Plan Your Visit. Plan Your Visit Overview; Tickets & Hours What If I Don’t Move to the Back of the Bus? Visit. Visit Overview; Plan Your Visit. Plan Your Visit Overview; Tickets & Hours What If I Don’t Move to the Back of the Bus? Visit. Visit Overview; Plan Your Visit. Plan Your Visit Overview; Tickets & Hours What If I Don’t Move to the Back of the Bus? Visit. Visit Overview; Plan Your Visit. Plan Your Visit Overview; Tickets & Hours MOVE TO THE BACK, ROSA PARKS Bv Lynn Rymarz Appears here with the kind permission of the author IT WAS A COLD winter’s evening Thursday, 1 December 1955, when Rosa Parks stood on a crowded Montgomery, Alabama, street corner waiting for the bus to take her home. As soon as the white, green, and yellow Cleveland Avenue bus arrived,
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