The City of Montgomery and other groups have a week of events planned to remember the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which helped start the Civil Rights Movement.

It was on December 1, 1955, that seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus to a white man and was arrested. Those events led to the bus boycott led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which lasted for more than a year and helped launch the fight against segregation.

Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement, is fingerprinted by officer D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956. She was among some 100 people charged with violating segregation laws. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)

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