Black people chose to walk or carpool to their destinations instead, which adversely affected the Southern bus transit system financially.Īt the time of her arrest, Parks was also a secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Rosa Parks’ arrest sparked a massive demonstration called the Montgomery Bus Boycott in which hundreds of black people refused to take public transportation for 381 days. However, Rosa Parks eventually became an international icon and was able to travel the world as a representative for the Civil Rights struggle. Due to the publicity that her case garnered, Parks suffered financial hardships when her white employer fired her from her job as a seamstress. She was jailed for violating the city’s segregation laws as a result. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger when white bus driver James Blake ordered her to do so.
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