Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Happened in Montgomery


Correction. I thought the bus boycott occurred in Birmingham (Alabama, not the U.K.), but I was wrong. It was in Montgomery. I learned it today at the Rosa Parks Museum.

The museum is small, but informative with historic documents, which is interesting. The presentation of the bus (what happened in the bus, how Rosa Parks rejected to give up her seat for a white passenger, etc.), I thought, is well organized. And you would get background information (more details) on the boycott. Actually, I didn't know that Martin Luther King Jr.'s house was bombed because he helped the movement.

Anyhow, that happened only 50 years ago. Mm ...