Today, Dallas Area Rapid Transit is honoring her by reserving the front seat of more than 500 DART buses.
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On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person.
Tuesday is the 60th anniversary of the genesis of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
DART is also installing two plaques at DART’s Rosa Parks Plaza in downtown Dallas. “The incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks”.
Following a wildly successful first day of protests, Rev. Martin Luther King emerged as a leader for the bus boycotts after sharing a powerful message to the crowd full of African Americans and civil rights activists. She was vindicated when a Supreme Court decision struck down the ordinance under which she had been fined, and outlawed racial segregation on public transportation.
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Arrested for the act of defiance, Ms. Parks single-handedly sped the demolition of Southern segregation. He was back in Montgomery over this Thanksgiving weekend for Alabama State’s homecoming. The conversation is at 6:30 p.m. Central time. Refusing to give up a seat on a segregated bus was the simplest of gestures, but her grace, dignity, and refusal to tolerate injustice helped spark a Civil Rights Movement that spread across America.
