Parks defied his order, he called the police. The law was actually somewhat murky on that point, but when Mrs. James Blake, the driver, believed he had the discretion to move the line separating black and white passengers. ![]() Parks remained seated, arguing that she was not in a seat reserved for whites. Eventually, three of the passengers moved, while Mrs. Parks and the other three passengers seated in that row, all African Americans, to vacate their seats for the white passengers boarding. When the bus became crowded, the bus driver instructed Mrs. Parks was seated in the first row behind those 10 seats. ![]() On the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama, the front 10 seats were permanently reserved for white passengers. Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested that day for violating a city law requiring racial segregation of public buses. Before she reached her destination, she quietly set off a social revolution when the bus driver instructed her to move back, and she refused. On December 1, 1955, during a typical evening rush hour in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old woman took a seat on the bus on her way home from the Montgomery Fair department store where she worked as a seamstress. ![]() An Act of Courage, The Arrest Records of Rosa Parks
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