Alabama bus segregation ended November 13th, 1956

IN 1955 THE RULE ON THE BUSES in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, was that 'coloured'passengers must sit at the back and leave the front seats to white passengers. In December a black woman in her forties named Rosa Parkes, long active in the civil rights movement, declined to give a white man her seat on the Cleveland Avenue bus. Her action, apparently, was spontaneous: she said her feet were tired. The bus stopped and she was arrested and fined $14.