60 years ago, a woman sat down and refused to get up
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From Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx:
Sixty years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
In doing so, she took a stand against an ordinance requiring black riders to surrender their seats to white riders.
Her subsequent arrest mobilized the African-American community to boycott the Montgomery city buses, fueled the rise of Martin Luther King, Jr. as the nation’s leading civil rights voice, and nourished the idea that transportation access should transcend race, ability, or socioeconomic status...
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