![]() ![]() Parks and Blake also had a previous encounter 12 years earlier when he stopped Parks from entering the front of his bus. ![]() Blake told to move to the back of the bus “to equalize the seating.” He could do that because Montgomery gave police powers to bus drivers to enforce segregation. Parks, who sat in the front of the section for Blacks, was one of the Black passengers whom bus driver J.F. It's the 65th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Here's how to celebrate it She was actually tired of being treated like that. The story that’s been told through the decades is that Parks didn’t move because she was physically tired. Under Jim Crow laws, the Tuskegee native had been charged with “ignoring a bus driver who directed her to sit in the rear of the bus.” 1, 1955, arrest of 42-year-old seamstress Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. That day’s paper had no concept of the history it was covering with the Dec. Sixty-five years ago, a civil rights icon’s rise began with five paragraphs buried on the bottom of of The Montgomery Advertiser: “Negro jailed here for ‘overlooking’ bus segregation.” ![]()
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