Rosa Parks Honored on Metro Bus Fleet
Metro Transit is honoring Rosa Parks with interior bus cards, as well as a sign affixed to a single front seat in every one of Metro's buses.
The interior banners include a thought-provoking message about Rosa Parks, along with a picture of her quietly sitting at the front of the bus.
The seat signs are affixed to the headrest area of the first front-facing seat seen when entering the front doors of the bus. The sign dedicates the front seat in honor of Rosa Parks. Like all seats on Metro, it is open for anyone to sit in.
This December will mark the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her act launched the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States helping to end legal segregation in America.
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