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 The Bus Stop / The Montgomery Bus Boycott Posted by:  xptwo
N 32° 22.654 W 086° 18.541
16S E 564998 N 3582497
Historical Marker indicating the bus stop where Rosa Parks boarded the bus and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Waymark Code: WMCT73
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 10/09/2011
Views: 18
On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded a bus but refused to give up her seat to a white person as was the law of the day. She was arrested. Her conviction helped launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott, an early civil rights effort in which blacks refused to use the segregated bus system. This marker indicates the location of the bus stop where she boarded the bus.
Marker Name: The Bus Stop / The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Marker Type: Urban
Addtional Information::
The complete text of the marker is:
The Bus Stop
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
At the stop on this site on December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded the bus which would transport her name into history. Returning home after a long day working as a seamstress for Montgomery Fair department store, she refused the bus driver's order to give up her seat to boarding whites. Her arrest, conviction, and fine launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Boycott began December 5, the day of Parks's trial, as a protest by African-Americans for unequal treatment they received on the bus line. Refusing to ride the buses, they maintained the Boycott until the U.S. Supreme Court ordered integration of public transportation one year later. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Boycott, the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated during its Centennial Salute
[2008]
Date Dedicated / Placed: 2008
Marker Number: Not Listed
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