On December 1, 1955, at around 6p.m. after a long day of work, Rosa Parks got on a bus to head home. Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on her way from work at the Montgomery Fair Department Store. Contrary to what is often taught in schools, Rosa was not seated in the front and was in the colored section, but there were no “white” seats and the driver of the bus demanded that she move for a white man. Rosa’s refusal to move to a different seat started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which many people consider the start of the Civil Rights Movement.
