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Rosa McCauley Parks is known today as the “mother of the civil rights movement”
because her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat sparked the pivotal
Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. She didn’t set out to make history when she
left her job as a seamstress to board a bus on the afternoon of December 1,
1955. She was tired, and she just wanted to go home. Still, when the bus driver
asked her to move toward the back of the bus so that a white man could sit, she
couldn’t bring herself to do it.
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2009/01/20090106142830jmnamdeirf0.6788446.html#ixzz2xeJd7KET
because her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat sparked the pivotal
Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. She didn’t set out to make history when she
left her job as a seamstress to board a bus on the afternoon of December 1,
1955. She was tired, and she just wanted to go home. Still, when the bus driver
asked her to move toward the back of the bus so that a white man could sit, she
couldn’t bring herself to do it.
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2009/01/20090106142830jmnamdeirf0.6788446.html#ixzz2xeJd7KET