When is Rosa Parks Day?
Friday December 1stOn February 4th, or December 1st, Rosa Parks Day honors an American Civil Rights hero twice a year. Rosa Parks, the civil rights leader, is honored on this holiday..
Rosa Parks boardinged a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, after a long Thursday at work, boarded a bus. She took her seat in the 'colored' section.' vs. The bus started to fill as she rode the Cleveland Avenue bus home.
According to the Montgomery city charter, bus drivers were allowed to assign seats. They did not have to insist that passengers give up their seats, but not obliged them to insist that passengers give up their seats. Given this, bus operators routinely requested black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers when public transportation became full.
She refused when the bus driver begged Parks to give up her seat. Police arrested her, and the rest of Civil Rights history follows. Parks was found guilty of breaching the city code on December 5, 1955, and she was fined $10 more in court fines.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which included E.D. Nixon and Martin Luther King Jr., arranged the Montgomery Bus Boycott for the date of Rosa Park's trial. The resistance campaign in Montgomery lasted for many months and affected the transportation system.
