1 dicembre  1955 – A Montgomery (Alabama), la sarta Rosa Parks si rifiuta di cedere il posto sull’autobus ad un uomo bianco e viene arrestata per aver violato le leggi di segregazione razziale della città , Martin Luther King guiderà il riuscito Boicottaggio dei bus di Montgomery

Rosa Parks Arrested

I did not get on the bus to get arrested; I got on the bus to go home.From Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Quiet Strength
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1994), 23.
Woman Fingerprinted. Mrs. Rosa Parks, Negro Seamstress, whose Refusal to Move to the Back of a Bus Touched off the Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala., 1956,
New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.
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Rosa Parks: “Why do you push us around?”
Officer: “I don’t know but the law is the law and you’re under arrest.”From Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Quiet Strength
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1994), 23.

On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full. Blacks also were required to sit at the back of the bus. Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system and led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation.

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