Montgomery Alabama December 1 1955 at the end of the working day 42yearold Rosa Parks a black leather dressmaker takes bus 2857 heading home. She sits in a center row but when a white passenger gets on after a few stops the driver asks her to get up to give him her seat as required by the rules. Rosa knows them well the blacks sit in the back the whites in front while the center seats are mixed and can only be used if all the others are occupied but the whites retain priority. No Rosa replies