1 December

Today's the day when in 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested by police in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person. Five days later, thousands of black citizens boycotted the buses in Alabama - to mark the day she was due in court. She was fined $10 plus $4 costs. Later that same evening, the young preacher Martin Luther King addressed a crowd of several thousand at Holt Street Baptist Church and called for the boycott to continue. Nearly all Montgomery's 40,000 black citizens took part in the bus boycott, which lasted for 381 days. On December 20th the Supreme Court upheld the decision of a lower court to end segregation on Alabama's buses.

Rosa Parkes had the cry for justice in her heart. And that comes straight from God, who says through the prophet Amos:

Let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!