Story for waiting - Rosa Parks

Every stop has a story. Behind each name lies a piece of Brussels' history, geography or culture. With 'stories for waiting', we dive into the origins of our stops’ names — to help you see the city with fresh eyes, one stop at a time.

Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, better known as Rosa Parks, was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, a city in the state of Alabama (United States). She died on October 24, 2005, in Detroit, Michigan. Rosa Parks was an African American woman and an iconic figure in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. She was nicknamed the "mother of the civil rights movement" by the U.S. Congress.

On December 1, 1955, at the age of 42, Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested by the police and fined $15.

Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. then led a protest and boycott campaign against the bus company that lasted 381 days.

On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that segregation laws on public buses were unconstitutional, thus ending segregation on buses.

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