 |
Mrs. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her refusal to move to the back of a bus |
 |
December 1 - Montgomery, AL - Rosa Parks, a secretary for the Montgomery NAACP, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. This sparked a 381-day bus boycott, which was led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and resulted in desegregating Montgomery's buses.