Rosa Parks is shown here during a symbolic ride in the formerly whites-only section of a city bus in Montgomery on December 21, 1956, the day the U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation of the city's public transit vehicles.
Rosa Parks Boards a Desegregated Bus
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