On this date in 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

Here was the initial coverage in Ohio newspapers the week after that.
Follow up coverage in February 1956, 10 weeks into the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

"The racial unrest in Alabama has pulled white persons and Negroes farther apart."
More coverage from February 1956, when a grand jury of 17 white men and 1 Black man indicted more than 100 people for their roles in the boycott.
More coverage from February 1956, when a grand jury of 17 white men and 1 Black man indicted more than 100 people for their roles in the boycott.
More coverage from February 1956, when a grand jury of 17 white men and 1 Black man indicted more than 100 people for their roles in the boycott.
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