UPI Almanac for Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016
Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 03:41
in Astronomy & Space
By United Press International On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman, was arrested in Montgomery, Ala., for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus, signaling, along with its resulting bus boycott and related events, the birth of the modern civil rights movement.