Montgomery in Montgomery County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks ⎯⎯⎯ The Bus Stop
Photographed by Lee Hattabaugh, October 1, 2010
1. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks Marker
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, also, The Bus Stop. . Side A
A Lady of Courage. Born in Tuskegee, AL on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona Edwards, a teacher. Moved with mother and brother to Pine Level, AL after parents' separation. Enrolled in Mrs. White's School for Girls at age 11 and received her high school diploma from Alabama State Teachers College Laboratory High School. Married Montgomery barber Raymond Parks in 1932; both became active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which Mrs. Parks served as local chapter secretary. Family relocated to Detroit, MI in 1957 as result of hostility received after her courageous refusal to give up her bus seat. In 1988, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was inducted as an honorary member into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest African American sorority in the nation. Rosa Parks was the sole class of 2008 inductee into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame., Side B
The Montgomery Bus Boycott. At the stop on this site on December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded the bus which would transport her name into history. Returning home after a long day working as a seamstress for Montgomery Fair department store, she refused the bus driver's order to give up her seat to boarding whites. Her arrest, conviction, and fine launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Boycott began December 5, the day of Parks's trial, as a protest by African-Americans for unequal treatment they received on the bus line. Refusing to ride the buses, they maintained the Boycott until the U.S. Supreme Court ordered integration of public transportation one year later. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the boycott, the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Side A
A Lady of Courage
Born in Tuskegee, AL on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona Edwards, a teacher. Moved with mother and brother to Pine Level, AL after parents' separation. Enrolled in Mrs. White's School for Girls at age 11 and received her high school diploma from Alabama State Teachers College Laboratory High School. Married Montgomery barber Raymond Parks in 1932; both became active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which Mrs. Parks served as local chapter secretary. Family relocated to Detroit, MI in 1957 as result of hostility received after her courageous refusal to give up her bus seat. In 1988, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was inducted as an honorary member into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest African American sorority in the nation. Rosa Parks was the sole class of 2008 inductee into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
Side B
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
At the stop on this site on December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded the bus which would transport her name into history. Returning home after a long day working as a seamstress for Montgomery Fair department store, she refused the bus driver's order to give up her seat to boarding whites. Her arrest, conviction,
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and fine launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Boycott began December 5, the day of Parks's trial, as a protest by African-Americans for unequal treatment they received on the bus line. Refusing to ride the buses, they maintained the Boycott until the U.S. Supreme Court ordered integration of public transportation one year later. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the boycott, the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Erected 2008 by Alabama Historical Association Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, incorporated during its centennial salute.
Location. 32° 22.655′ N, 86° 18.539′ W. Marker is in Montgomery, Alabama, in Montgomery County. It is at the intersection of Dexter Avenue and Commerce Street, on the right when traveling east on Dexter Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Montgomery AL 36104, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Alabama’s Tri-Counties River Region. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, and in the Black Belt. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Also see . . . The Montgomery Bus Boycott. National Park Service website entry (Submitted on July 27, 2022, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)
Photographed by Lee Hattabaugh, October 1, 2010
3. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks / The Bus Stop Marker
Photographed by Lee Hattabaugh, October 1, 2010
4. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks / The Bus Stop Marker
The marker is on the left in this picture, with the "City of Montgomery / Court Square" marker on the right. The Lightning Route / Central Bank Building marker was just to left of clock.
Associated Press Photo by Gene Herrick via Wikipedia Commons, February 1956
5. Rosa Parks Being Fingerprinted Again in 1956
This second arrest was for boycotting without “a just cause or legal excuse” during the bus boycott.
Photographed by Mark Hilton, December 14, 2019
6. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks / The Bus Stop Marker was moved about 25 feet.
This small park at Court Square was renovated and the marker slightly moved a while ago.
Photographed by Mark Hilton, December 14, 2019
7. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks / The Bus Stop Marker in new location.
Compare this photo to photo #3.
Credits. This page was last revised on January 3, 2025. It was originally submitted on October 4, 2010, by Lee Hattabaugh of Capshaw, Alabama. This page has been viewed 7,676 times since then and 313 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on October 4, 2010, by Lee Hattabaugh of Capshaw, Alabama. 5. submitted on November 18, 2017, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio. 6, 7. submitted on December 14, 2019, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
