Some boycott participants carpooled and some rode in Black-operated cabs that charged the same fare as the bus, but most walked. On Sunday, December 4, plans for a bus boycott were announced at Black churches in Montgomery and on Monday, December 5-the day that Parks was tried on charges of disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance-some 40,000 African American commuters in Montgomery boycotted the buses. Although Parks had recently attended training for activists in workers' rights and racial equality, she acted as a private citizen. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey a bus driver's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger after the white section was filled, and she was arrested. In 1943, she became active in the Civil Rights Movement and joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She married in 1932, and with her husband's encouragement, finished high school in 1933 at a time when less than 7 percent of African Americans had a high school diploma. Parks was born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her act of defiance and the resulting Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.

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