This Day in History, 1955: Rosa Parks

[mabfan]

Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks's act of civil disobedience led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. A little more than a year after that fateful day, on December 20, 1956, Montgomery's buses were finally desegregated.

Rosa Parks died just a few weeks ago, on October 24. The Senate passed a resolution allowing her body to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

(For more information, see today's This Day in History.

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

This afternoon, Bush signs a law for the placement of a statue of Parks in the Capitol.

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

I believe they have also passed a resolution for a statue in her honor.