Eventually, the bus was full and the driver noticed that several white passengers were standing in the aisle. She took a seat in the first of several rows designated for “coloured” passengers.Īs the bus Parks was riding continued on its route, it began to fill with white passengers. After a long day’s work at a Montgomery department store, where she worked as a seamstress, Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus for home. On December 1, 1955, Parks was arrested for refusing a bus driver’s instructions to give up her seat to a white passenger. She later recalled that her refusal wasn’t because she was physically tired, but that she was tired of giving in. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities. Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.
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