Under the system of segregation used on Montgomery buses, white people who boarded the bus took seats in the front rows, filling the bus toward the back.

She reported on the school desegregation fight in Birmingham, Ala., and on the Montgomery bus boycott and the murders of black sharecroppers who exercised their right to vote.

On Montgomery buses, the first four rows were reserved for whites.

The legend of Rosa Parks, a living legend of the civil rights movement after the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, was born in such a way.

He compared the "uncritical celebration" of Tel Aviv to "celebrating Montgomery buses in 1963" or "South African fruit in 1991."

On December 1, 1955, Parks entered a Montgomery bus, refused to give up her seat for a white passenger, and was arrested.

She was a 15-year-old girl who had been the first person arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine months before Rosa Parks' action.

"King led a boycott to end segregation on Montgomery buses," his timeline read.

The first four rows of seats on each Montgomery bus were reserved for whites.

Atlanta Life's Montgomery office even employed Rosa Parks as a secretary during the Montgomery bus boycott, which she sparked.