Rosa Parks

1 December 1955  

On this date in 1955...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In response to her arrest, the black community launched a bus boycott that lasted over a year until the buses were desegregated on 21 December 1956. 

Other Years:

• 1805 - The U.S. invited 6 Creek Chiefs to Washington to renegotiate the flint River Treaty of 1804. The U.S. agreed to pay the Creek $206,000 for two million acres. The Creek agreed to allowing a road through their land.
• 1831 - Peter Pitchlynn and 400 other Choctaw board the steamer Brandywine in Memphis to transport them up to Arkansas Post.
• 1861 – Troops fought skirmishes at Camp Goggin and Whippoorwill Creek, Kentucky
• 1884 - Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca held off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
• 1969 - The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II, again drafting Southerners at a higher rate than the rest of the country.
• 1974 - A Boeing 727 crashed in Upperville, VA killing 92 passengers.

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