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Fighting For Equality:
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| On December 1, 1955, an African American woman named Rosa Parks was riding home from her job as a department store seamstress. The bus was full when a white man boarded. The driver checked the bus and commanded Mrs. Parks and others to resign a row so the white man could sit down. Mrs. Parks refused and was arrested. This act revitalized the Civil Rights movement. The NAACP quickly grown conscious of the apprehension of Mrs. Parks and prompltysaw it as a chance to question segregation on public transportation. Many political and religious leaders supported the one-day boycott to protest Mrs. Parks arrest.
The boycott was an instant properity. For 381 days, many of Montgomery's black residents did not ride the buses. On December 21, 1956 blacks returned to the buses in victory ending the boycott. The U.S. Supreme Court proclaimed segregated seating on their city's buses unconstitutional.
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