On this day in 1955, according to the Associated Press, "Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; the incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks."
African-American poet Nikki Giovanni is the author of a poem titled "Rosa Parks."
Read "Rosa Parks" by Nikki Giovanni >>
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