Clinton to speak at Montgomery Bus Boycott anniversary event

She quietly refused, and subsequently was arrested for violating the segregation laws then in force.

The Montgomery Bus Boycotts lasted for more than a year. She was vindicated when a Supreme Court decision struck down the ordinance under which she had been fined, and outlawed racial segregation on public transportation.

Clinton will speak Tuesday morning at the Montgomery, Alabama, church pastored by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the boycott.

December 1 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Rosa Parks’s refusal to move to the colored section on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus.

What happened next was the catalyst for one of the biggest boycotts of the entire Civil Rights movement.

It was on December 1, 1955, that Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery city bus.

The life of Rosa Parks, whose defiance of segregation sparked a citywide movement in Montgomery, Ala., is the subject of a new video released by the U.S. Courts on the 60 anniversary of her protest.

She died October 24, 2005, less than two months before the 50th anniversary of her boycott, but her legacy continues now on this 60th anniversary.