Rosa Parks: 60th Anniversary of Day She Refused to Give Up Bus Seat
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ByGood Morning America
December 01, 2015, 11:36 AM
— -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement” refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
Parks was arrested because segregation on buses was legal in Montgomery, Alabama, at the time. Parks, an NAACP member, wasn’t the first to refuse to give up a seat, but her action led to the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1956, the Supreme Court ruled to ban segregation on public buses.
Watch the video above to learn about Rosa Parks in a minute.
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