Alabama NewsCenter — Rosa Parks artwork unveiled at Montgomery museum

By Michael Jordan

On the warm afternoon of Dec. 1, 1955, as recalled by famed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray as “very similar to the weather today,” Rosa Parks finished her shift as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair Department Store and waited for the Cleveland Avenue bus to take her home. Parks took an open seat in a section reserved for whites, but as more people boarded at subsequent stops, she was asked to surrender place to a white man. She refused, and police took her into custody.

Her arrest sparked outrage throughout the Black community and on Dec. 5, 1955, the 382-day Montgomery Bus Boycott began, a boycott many consider the starting point of the modern civil rights movement.

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