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slash setup today is Tuesday December 1st, 2020.

On this day in 1955, Montgomery police arrested civil rights activist Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parkast. Due to the descriptions of violence against black people, listener discretion is advised. Extreme caution is

advised for listeners under 13. Today we're covering the arrest of Rosa Parks,

an act of civil disobedience that struck a massive blow against legal segregation. Now let's go back

to December 1st, 1955, on board the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

42-year-old Rosa Parks didn't notice the tall blonde man driving the bus that evening.

If she had, maybe things would have turned out

differently. She and the driver, James Blake, had met before. Twelve years earlier, they'd

clashed over a racist policy he had on his bus. Blake was notorious among the black community

for accepting a black passenger's money in the front of the bus,

then forcing them to disembark and re-board at the back. Sometimes he even drove off after the passengers left, stealing their bus fare.

In 1943, Blake had kicked Rosa off a city bus for refusing to board through the rear entrance.

She had avoided riding with him ever since.

But on this evening in 1955, Rosa wanted to get home after a long day working as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair Department store.

She paid him no mind and

headed to a seat at the front of the black section. In Montgomery, municipal buses

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