MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – Seventy years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus, several civil rights luminaries, including the descendants of those who helped organize, lead, and sustain the movement since 1955, will convene in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1–6, to commemorate the anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus. Four days later, on December 5, over 5,000 people attended the first Mass Meeting to plan a boycott of the bus system. The boycott lasted 381 days and set in motion the national movement that ultimately dismantled Jim Crow.
Community members are invited to come and stand with the Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute next week by attending these commemorative events:
Worldwide Tolling of the Bells
December 1 – 6:06 p.m.…