USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rosa Parks attended a 1955 workshop at Highlander four months before refusing to give up her bus seat, an act that ignited the Montgomery bus boycott.

Detailed explanation-2: -Today marks the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ decision to sit down for her rights on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, putting the effort to end segregation on a fast track. Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger.

Detailed explanation-3: -At the Highlander Folk School, they helped train people in forms of non-violent protests and how to desegregate communities, including schools. The Highlander Folk School did not just teach in Monteagle, they hosted programs all across the South. Even Martin Luther King Jr.

Detailed explanation-4: -Contents. Rosa Parks (1913-2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.

Detailed explanation-5: -Montgomery segregation laws at the time dictated that Black passengers sit behind white passengers on public transportation, and bus drivers routinely moved Black passengers to make room for white passengers. Colvin, in refusing to move, cited that she paid her fare and staying seated was her constitutional right.