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Rosa Parks is famous for refusing to give up her seat to a white man while riding the bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Her actions spurred the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ultimately led to the desegregation of buses within the city. On Thursday, December 1, 1955, the 42-year-old Rosa Parks was commuting home from a long day of work at the Montgomery Fair department store by bus. Black residents of Montgomery often Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger. Contrary to some reports, Parks wasn’t physically tired and was able to leave her seat. December 21, 1956: Following a Supreme Court ruling that segregated buses are unconstitutional, the 381-day boycott ends. Parks is photographed sitting at the front of a bus for Look magazine. The National City Lines bus, No. 2857, on which Rosa Parks rode before she was arrested (a GM "old-look" transit bus, serial number 1132), is now on exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum. On the night of Parks' arrest, the Women's Political Council , led by Jo Ann Robinson , printed and circulated a flyer throughout Montgomery's black community that The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a seminal event in the civil rights movement, sparked by Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus. On that fateful day in December 1955, Parks was arrested for violating the city’s segregation laws, an act that ignited outrage and determination within the African American community. 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. (Credit: Getty Images) About Rosa Parks In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws. 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. When the white driver demanded she re-board the standing-room only bus by entering from the back, she got off, waited for the next bus and swore she would never ride again with that driver. Her arrest in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. When Rosa passed away on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, people around the world mourned her loss. Her body lay in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, an honor reserved for only a few great Americans. Why Rosa Parks Matters. Rosa Parks’ story is a reminder that courage doesn’t always come with loud speeches or grand gestures. For years, the black community had complained that the situation was unfair. Parks said, "My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest. I did a lot of walking in Montgomery." [17] One day in 1943, Parks boarded a bus and paid the fare. 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. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. On December 1, 1955, after a long day of work as a seamstress, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and took a seat. Parks, a black woman, took a seat in the first row of seats in the rear "colored section." On October 24, 2005, Rosa Parks, a key figure in the American civil rights movement, passed away at the age of 92 in Detroit, Michigan. Parks is best remembered for her courageous act of defiance in 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This small but powerful gesture sparked the Montgomery Bus For the NAACP, Parks was the perfect person to be the face of the Montgomery bus boycott, and on the day Parks went to court, the group arranged for a one-day boycott of passenger buses. This later led to a more expansive boycott of the buses by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) that lasted 381 days and decimated the buses’ revenue On a winter's evening in 1955, a 42-year-old African-American woman named Rosa Parks, tired after a long day of work as a seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to get home. Shortly after Parks’s arrest, Jo Ann Robinson, a leader of the WPC, and E.D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP, printed and distributed leaflets describing Parks’s arrest and called for a one-day boycott of the city buses on December 5. They believed that the boycott could be effective because the Montgomery bus system was heavily That spark came on December 1, 1955, when 42-year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus after a long day at her tailoring job at Montgomery Fair department store. Parks was no ordinary citizen; she was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP and had attended trainings on civil disobedience at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.
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