By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated December 1, 2023
Sixty-eight years ago on this day, December 1 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested “for disobeying an Alabama law requiring Black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full,” per the Library of Congress.
That same law also required Black people “to sit at the back of the bus.”
What you might not have known is that this wasn’t Parks’ first
