Rosa Parks' actions on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, constituted a protest against segregation in which arena?

Rosa Parks' actions on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, constituted a protest against segregation in which arena?

• A. The public transportation system
• B. The school system
• C. Restaurants and public accommodations
• D. Law enforcement units

Answer: (A)

Rosa Parks’s action challenged segregation in the arena of public transportation. She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white person, standing up against the rules that separated riders by race on the bus system. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major early Civil Rights movement effort focused on ending bus seating segregation and leading to a ruling that such segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional. While Civil Rights actions addressed many spaces—schools, restaurants, and other public accommodations—the immediate target of Parks’s protest was the bus system itself.

Rosa Parks’s action challenged segregation in the arena of public transportation. She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white person, standing up against the rules that separated riders by race on the bus system. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major early Civil Rights movement effort focused on ending bus seating segregation and leading to a ruling that such segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional. While Civil Rights actions addressed many spaces—schools, restaurants, and other public accommodations—the immediate target of Parks’s protest was the bus system itself.