Rosa Parks Day Traditional Geocache
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Rosa Parks Day is an American holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks. In California and Missouri it is celebrated on her birthday, February 4th. In Ohio and Oregon it is celebrated on the day she was arrested, December 1st. Rosa Parks Day was created by the California State Legislature and first celebrated in 2000.
Rosa Parks was a seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama. On December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the frontmost row for black people on a Montgomery city bus. When a Caucasian man boarded the bus, the bus driver told everyone in her row to move back. While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and was arrested for failing to obey the driver. Rosa Park's action gained notoriety leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, and was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1955 to December 1956, when a federal ruling led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
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