A Quiet No on Cleveland Avenue
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as a...
This is a contemporary on courage and justice, drawing on Micah 6:8.
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store. She took a seat in the first row of the section designated for Black passengers. As the bus filled, driver James F. Blake ordered Parks and three other Black riders to give up their row so a single white man could sit.…
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