Sixty years ago, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for violating laws mandating racial segregation on buses. The event sparked one of the most well-known campaigns of the civil rights movement – the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks' activism began in 1943, when she became a member of the local chapter […]
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