1 December 1955
Waning Gibbous, 92% lit
Rosa Parks keeps her seat
In the evening rush hour in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused a bus driver's order to give up her seat and was arrested, under a waning gibbous moon.
She was charged with refusing to obey the driver's orders, and she was no chance passenger: she was active in the local NAACP, serving as secretary to E. D. Nixon. The bus boycott that followed ran from 5 December 1955 to 20 December 1956, 381 days, and ended after the Supreme Court ruled on 13 November 1956 that Alabama's bus segregation laws were unconstitutional.
- Date
- 1 December 1955
- Moon computed for
- 18:00 local time, UTC−6
- Phase
- Waning Gibbous
- Illuminated
- 92%
Source: National Archives, An Act of Courage: The Arrest Records of Rosa Parks (opens in a new tab)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Montgomery Bus Boycott (opens in a new tab) for the boycott's dates, 5 December 1955 to 20 December 1956
- National Park Service, The Montgomery Bus Boycott (opens in a new tab) for the Supreme Court ruling of 13 November 1956