On December 1. 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African woman who worked as a seamstress, boarded this Montgomery City bus to go home fromwork . American Black residents of Montgomery often avoided urban buses if possible because they found the Negroes-in-back policy so degrading.When a white man entered the bus,and there was not any more seats the bus driver asked four blacks in the first of serveral rows to stand three complied . Mrs. Parks, who was an active member of the local NAACP. refused to give up her seat. `
Her action was impulsive and not intentional, although her previous civil rights involvement and strong sense of justice were obviously the cause . "When I made that decision," she said later. ''I knew that I had the strength
Her action was impulsive and not intentional, although her previous civil rights involvement and strong sense of justice were obviously the cause . "When I made that decision," she said later. ''I knew that I had the strength