#OnThisDay 1955: Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. Visit BBC In History for more on the 'no' that sparked the US civil rights movement. https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20231128-rosa-parks-the-one-moment-that-sparked-the-civil-rights-movement Clip taken from Man Alive: Deep South, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 May 1974. | BBC Archive

A few months ago, I traveled to Montgomery for the Anarcha, Lucy, Betsey Day of Reckoning Conference and it was one of the most spiritual, grounding experiences I’ve had. Standing in Montgomery and Selma, walking the same paths where history was both made and scarred, I felt the weight of the stories, especially in medicine, that we inherit and the responsibility to tell them honestly. Just steps away from where I stood, the Alabama State Capitol still displays a monument to J. Marion Sims, the

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To see a statue of the Mother of the Montgomery Civil Rights Movement that sparked a WORLDWIDE CHANGE for BLACK & BROWN PEOPLE in AMERICA is a PROUD MOMENT! Rosa L. Parks stands right in front and on the State of Alabama Capitol grounds. There has never in history been a BLACK INDIVIDUAL HONORED in such a way in the History of Alabama! Please go check her out in Montgomery, Alabama! | JaMel Jermaine Brown

🌴🎖🐓P St Vibes Bloody Sunday refers to a pivotal event in the civil rights movement that took place on March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama. John Lewis, who was a young activist at the time and later became a U.S. Congressman, played a key role in leading a peaceful march for voting rights. That day, about 600 protesters, including Lewis and other leaders from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), attempted to march from Selma