Weatherday: No to back of the bus

Another grey day. Little chance of any blue sky.

Light southerly or variable breezes. Highest temperature 7deg.

On this day in 1955, black woman Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and was arrested. This sparked the US Civil Rights movement from a 381-day bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr.

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