How Rosa Parks' Protest Sparked a Momentous Chain of Events

Name: How Rosa Parks' Protest Sparked a Momentous Chain of Events
Uploaded: 2018-09-12
Duration: 110620
Description: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy. According to Parks, the murder of Emmett Till influenced her actions.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy. According to Parks, the murder of Emmett Till influenced her actions.