Rosa Parks, TheRide and montgomery bus boycott

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...
Feb. 4 marks the birthday of civil rights icon Rosa Parks — and local transit is honoring her legacy with free fare.
TARC will save a seat on every bus in its fleet in remembrance of Parks and her contribution to the civil rights movement.
The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.