Rosa Parks1 December 1955
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to comply with the Jim Crow laws that required her to give up her seat to a white man
United States of America · Politics / Civil Rights. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to comply with the Jim Crow laws that required her to give up her seat to a white man
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