There was a brave lady, 57 years ago, who had the courage to dare doing something unthinkable at the time: refuse to leave her sit on a bus to a white person. Her name was Rosa Louise Parks.

That year, 1955, she was 42 years old and worked as a seamstress. That day, December the 1st, she was on the bus, going back home from work. She was seating on the first sit behind the 10 ones reserved to white people. 

A white man got in, all the sits were occupied, and the bus drive asked Rosa and the other 3 persons, sitting on the sits for black people, to stand up, and let the man sit. Rosa refused. 

She was arrested and accused to have violated the laws of segretation. 

That day, that refusal, initiated a revolution. And on that bus, history reached a turning point. Lady Parks appealed her conviction, openly breaking the laws that made segregation perfectly legal. The bus system, Montgomery, was boycotted. That was the beginning of a non-violent protest supporting civil rights.

"I'd see the bus pass every day. But to me, that was a way of life. We had no choice but to accept what was the custom. 

The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world, and a white world."

(Rosa. L. Parks)