2 NOV: #WEDNESDAYWOMAN – CELEBRATING THE ACHIEVEMENT OF PIONEEERING WOMEN It was a small act of defiance, but Rosa Parks' refusal, as a black woman, to give up her bus seat to a white man, would change the course of American history. On 1 December 1955, the 42-year-old seamstress, and member of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was sitting on a bus when a white man demanded to take her seat. "Are you going to stand up?" the bus driver, James Blake, asked. "No," she answered. "Well, by God," the driver replied, "I'm going to have you arrested." "You may do that," Mrs Parks responded. Her arrest led to a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, organized by a then unknown Baptist minister, one Reverend Martin Luther King. This spawned the mass movement which culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and an end to segregation. PHOTO: Paul Sancya/AP Learn more: http://bbc.in/Quiet_Revolutionary #WednesdayWoman #PioneeringWomen #RosaParks #CivilRights #Women @BBCNews by bbcnews

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