Did You Know: Rosa Parks Refused To Give Up Her Seat On This Day?

Did You Know: Rosa Parks Refused To Give Up Her Seat On This Day?

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated December 1, 2023

Sixty-eight years ago on this day, December 1 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested “for disobeying an Alabama law requiring Black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full,” per the Library of Congress.

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