12/01/2025
70 years ago today
Did you know Ohio was the first state to officially observe Rosa Parks Day?
On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, an act that helped spark the modern civil rights movement.
Ohio’s observance was made possible by a bill introduced by then-State Representative Joyce Beatty and signed into law by Governor Bob Taft in 2006.
Image: Rosa Parks Portrait 1/1/1980, Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers, Library of Congress
