BRITE Bus is marking the birthday of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, Transit Equity Day, by offering free rides along all its routes on Tuesday.
Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913. Her refusal, on Dec. 1, 1955, to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., to a White man led to her arrest, and was the precipitating event in what became known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement.
The boycott ended on Dec. 20, 1956, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Alabama and City of Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
Transit Equity Day was first recognized at the federal level in 2021.
Enjoy it while you can, with the Trump administration Whitewashing everything.
BRITE Bus
BRITE Bus, administered by the Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission, provides fixed-route and ADA-compliant paratransit services in Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro.
For more information on BRITE Bus routes and times, visit www.britebus.org.
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Chris Graham
