#OnThisDay 1955: Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. Visit BBC In History for more on the 'no' that sparked the US civil rights movement. https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20231128-rosa-parks-the-one-moment-that-sparked-the-civil-rights-movement Clip taken from Man Alive: Deep South, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 May 1974. | BBC Archive

A few months ago, I traveled to Montgomery for the Anarcha, Lucy, Betsey Day of Reckoning Conference and it was one of the most spiritual, grounding experiences I’ve had. Standing in Montgomery and Selma, walking the same paths where history was both made and scarred, I felt the weight of the stories, especially in medicine, that we inherit and the responsibility to tell them honestly. Just steps away from where I stood, the Alabama State Capitol still displays a monument to J. Marion Sims, the

To see a statue of the Mother of the Montgomery Civil Rights Movement that sparked a WORLDWIDE CHANGE for BLACK & BROWN PEOPLE in AMERICA is a PROUD MOMENT! Rosa L. Parks stands right in front and on the State of Alabama Capitol grounds. There has never in history been a BLACK INDIVIDUAL HONORED in such a way in the History of Alabama! Please go check her out in Montgomery, Alabama! | JaMel Jermaine Brown

On December 5, 1955, the Black community of Montgomery, Alabama launched a city-wide boycott of the bus system — four days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. The boycott was coordinated by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), led by a young Martin Luther King Jr.. Roughly 30,000–40,000 Black residents avoided buses, opting instead to walk, carpool, or use Black-owned taxis — applying economic pressure on the bus company. The boycott last