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Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Dec 21, 1956

Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Dec 21, 1956 (© Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Dec 21, 1956 (© Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Remembering Rosa Parks

On Dec 1, 1955, Alabama native Rosa Parks took a stand when she refused to stand. Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a seat on a Mongomery bus in favor of a white passenger and was arrested and fined for this act of civil disobedience. Parks then helped lead a boycott of Montgomery buses that lasted for over a year. The year-long protest finally ended when the US Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s laws enforcing segregation on city buses and other modes of transportation were unconstitutional.
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