Brookings Institution 195d ago

Ever since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, she became a central leader in the struggle for freedom and equality in the United States and a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement. Keon Gilbert, director of the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative at Brookings, examines the impacts of her bus boycott 70 years later and the enduring legacy she left behind. Read more: https://www.brookings.edu/collection/rosa-parks/ Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BrookingsInstitution Follow Brookings on social media! Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/Brookings Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BrookingsInst Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/brookingsinst LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/com/company/the-brookings-institution