The Seat That Shook a City
On the evening of December 1, 1955, forty-two-year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at...
This is a contemporary on courage and justice, drawing on Micah 6:8.
On the evening of December 1, 1955, forty-two-year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at the Montgomery Fair department store. She settled into 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 others to surrender their row so a white man could sit.…
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