On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled.

Parks helped inspire the Black community to boycott the city buses, resulting in a landmark Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional, a *whole year later*.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browder_v._Gayle

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