This Day In History: December 1st 1955 Rosa Parks Bus Boycott

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Valerie Ramirez, Author
Dec 2, 2021

Rosa Parks Ignites Bus Boycott

In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1st 1955, Rosa was sent to jail for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Because of her arrest African American activists called for a bus boycott to be held. The protest lasted at least a year and it ended on December 20th. Rosa Parks was among the first to ride the new desegregated buses.