Daily Survival Guide

Today's Hero
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On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger while in Montgomery, Alabama. Her brave action helped launch the civil rights movement in the United States. Parks was fined and arrested, leading to the formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association under the direction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. the association organized a boycott of Montgomery public transportation that lasted over one year. The attention that the boycott brought to the injustice resulted in a Supreme Court ruling to abolish segregation on public transportation.