Sunday February 22nd at 1:15
After a tiring day at work, Rosa Parks took a seat in the designated "colored" section of a city bus. When the "White" section at the front filled up, the driver, James Blake, ordered Parks to relinquish her seat, as was the practice. She refused, and was arrested and jailed. Civil rights activists organized a one-day bus boycott the day of her trial (she was fined). With its success, they founded the Montgomery Improvement Association, and began a citywide bus boycott, led by a new local minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And that when the fun started, The boycott lasted 381 days, and a new era in American History began