Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26448340-20191022015100/@comment-34470077-20191201112243

On December 1st, 1955, African American seamstress Rosa Parks was traveling in a Montgomery city bus when the bus driver asked her to vacate her seat for a white man. What the driver was doing was a standard practice of racial segregation in the buses at that time. Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat under equality, fairness, and freedom. So she was arrested by violating the Jim Crow laws. Of course, she appealed and challenged the legality of segregation. Important African American leaders, majorly Martin Luther King Jr, boycotted the Montgomery bus system that lasted for 381 days, up to December 1956. At that month, the US Supreme Court decided that segregation was unconstitutional and the buses should be integrated, including the Montgomery bus system. That boycotted started other protests, fighting for equality, fairness and freedom. Now today, Rosa Parks Day is locally observed by Ohio and Oregon.