On This Day In Alabama History: Rosa Parks Was Arrested In Montgomery
By Graydon Rust Alabama 200
December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery after refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Her actions resulted in a $10 fine and sparked a year-long boycott of the city’s segregated bus system by Montgomery’s black population. The arrest also prompted a legal challenge of the city’s segregation ordinances, which resulted in the 1956 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle that officially integrated the state’s bus systems. Parks continued to work for civil rights causes throughout her life and, in 1996, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton for her work.
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