Honoring Rosa Parks

All NYC area buses will leave the front seat empty tomorrow- as a tribute to Rosa Parks.

Other cities (Boston, Cleveland, Montgomery, Newark, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.) will have similar tributes.

A great way to honor an American hero.

US buses pay tribute to Parks

NEW York’s bus system will be among dozens in the US paying tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks tomorrow, the 50th anniversary of the day she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white man.

In Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses in New York City and Long Island, the seat behind the driver will be symbolically reserved for the late Parks, whose act of disobedience and subsequent arrest prompted a bus boycott and proved a major turning point in the country’s civil rights movement...