55 years ago today down in Montgomery Alabama, Rosa Louise Parks, a 42 year old department store seamstress refused to listen to a bus driver that ordered her to give up her seat on the bus in order make room for a white passenger.Her action sparked the legendary Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and marked the true beginnings of the civil rights movement. It was a turning point in the history of this country and race relations and it should always be remembered.
a good place to learn more about Rosa Parks and the early civil rights movement is the Scholastic webpage that is dedicated to her life and the struggles of the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's.
