Diagram of the Bus Showing Where Rosa Parks Was Seated - 1 December 1955
At that time, the front 10 seats of the Montgomery, Alabama, city buses were permanently reserved for white passengers. Parks was seated in the first row behind those 10 seats. When the bus became crowded, the driver instructed Parks to the back.
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