Milestone: the age Rosa Parks was when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus. Her arrest led to the Montgomery bus boycott.
Sources: Stanford King Institute · Equal Justice Initiative. Ages are calculated, not estimated.
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