Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.
The firestorm of action and attention that followed her one-woman protest reshaped American history.
"Contingent with the protest in Montgomery, others took shape throughout the south and the country. They took form as sit-ins, eat-ins, swim-ins, and similar causes. Thousands of courageous people joined the ‘protest’ to demand equal rights for all people."deemed Montgomery's segregationist policies unconstitutional on Nov. 13, 1956.
The charismatic King emerged as the inspirational voice of the wider civil rights movement that grew out of the Montgomery bus boycott. "Just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Greco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown," King wrote from behind bars in April 1963, following one of his many arrests, in his famous"Letter from a Birmingham Jail.""Mrs. Parks’ courage catapulted her into world history.
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