Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is greeted by attorney Fred D. Gray, who was Rosa Parks’ lawyer 60 years ago after her arrest Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white person. Mrs. Parks’ actions sparked a yearlong bus boycott and launched the modern Civil Rights Movement. Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Gray spoke Tuesday at a commemoration at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.
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60 years after Rosa Parks’ arrest launched modern civil rights era, ‘our work isn’t finished’
MONTGOMERY, ALA. While Rosa Parks became a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus, the 60th anniversary of her arrest also highlighted lesser-known pioneers of the bus boycott she sparked. Mrs. Parks made history by taking a stand alongside other desegregation pioneers like Claudette Colvin, a black teenager arrested nine months earlier in Montgomery, Ala., for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, said Fred D. Gray, a lawyer who represented both women.
