Rosa Parks' 70th Anniversary: The Mother of Civil Rights

Seventy years ago, Rosa Parks defiant act on a Montgomery bus sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a 381-day protest that led to the desegregation of public buses and ignited the broader Civil Rights Movement. Parks, hailed as the mother of the modern Civil Rights Movement, continues to inspire as her legacy is celebrated in Montgomery this week. DNN | The Daily News Now! The world’s first global local news network. Every city. Every story. AI powered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.