![]() ![]() Parks, who sat in the front of the section for Blacks, was one of the Black passengers whom bus driver J.F. ![]() ![]() More: Creating downtown Montgomery's Rosa Parks sculpture: From ideas to clay to bronze She was actually tired of being treated like that. The story that’s been told through the decades is that Parks didn’t move because she was was physically tired. Under Jim Crow laws, the Tuskegee native had been charged with “ignoring a bus driver who directed her to sit in the rear of the bus.” 1, 1955, arrest of 42-year-old seamstress Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. That day’s paper had no concept of the history it was covering with the Dec. Sixty-five years ago, a civil rights icon’s rise began with five paragraphs buried on the bottom of of The Montgomery Advertiser: “Negro jailed here for ‘overlooking’ bus segregation.” ![]()
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