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Rosa Parks was arrested 60 years ago, here's the police report

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Dec 1, 2015

Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus Dec. 1, 1955. It lead to a bus boycott and became a signal moment in the Civil Rights movement.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center shared an image of the police report written about Parks on the 60th anniversary of her act of civil disobedience.

Today. 60 years ago. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus. This is the police report. She...

Posted by Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday, December 1, 2015

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