Rosa Parks

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often avoided many segregated activities such as traveling by bus, preferring to walk home from work when she was not too tired to do so. Busses were a constant irritation to all black passengers. Front rows of busses were reserved for whites only and off limits to blacks even if the bus was very crowed and there weren't enough whites to fill them. The always-crowded back seats were for blacks, but only if no whites wished to occupy these seats. If the white section was full and a new white passenger stepped on the bus, a whole row of black seats had to be vacated so the one white person could sit down.
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks was feeling particularly tired after a long hard day at her job as a seamstress. Her feet were too weary to walk, so she decided to take her chances and ride the bus. The bus was crowed but she found a vacant seat in the middle section and sat down. She had only been siting there for a moment, glad to be off her feet at last only to see a ...

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