12 Incredible Facts About The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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In 1955 Rosa Parks was a 42-year-old black woman living in Montgomery Alabama She worked as a seamstress She was also involved in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP This organization worked to gain equal rights for black people December 1 1955 started off as a typical day for Parks She paid JO ANN ROBINSON Jo Ann Robinson was a professor at Alabama State College She was also a member of the Women’s Political Council In 1949 she accidentally sat in the white section of a bus The bus driver shouted at her and she got off the bus That day she vowed to do whatever she could to end bus segregation The exact spot where Rosa Parks waited for her bus ROSA PARKS SAYS NO 2 6